A Porcelain Teapot

ARITA WARE, KAKIEMON TYPE, EDO PERIOD (LATE 17TH CENTURY)

Details

A Porcelain Teapot
Arita Ware, Kakiemon Type, Edo Period (Late 17th Century)
Painted in polychrome enamels over clear glaze with blue birds perched on flower stems below a floret collar, the spout and handle decorated with scrolling foliage, the lobed cover with matching flowers with a blossom-form knop, fitted with Dutch gilt mounts of birds on the handle and spout and with a gilt finial of a man's head, the spout with a hinged cap, connected by a gilded-metal chain
3in. (9.5cm.) high; 6in. (5.cm.) long

Lot Essay

For a teapot of similar size and decoration see Nagatake Takeshi, Hizen toki no keifu (Lineage of Hizen porcelain) (Tokyo: Meicho Shuppan, 1974), pl. 24. For a small teapot with very similar Dutch gilt mounts see Soame Jenyns, Japanese Porcelain (London: Faber and Faber, Ltd., 1965), no. 59A. See also lot 15 in this catalogue.

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