細節
An early enamelled vase
Edo Period (late 17th Century), mounts and cover later
Decorated in iron-red, green, yellow, blue and black enamels between underglaze blue circumferential lines with long-tailed birds among sprays of tree peony and chrysanthemum, the shoulder with a band of hanabishi design, the neck with an ormolu mount, its handles to each side formed as leaves with a three-legged salamander, the cover mounted with rock crystal
6in. (16.4cm.) high
出版
Similar examples are illustrated Heibonsha, Nihon toji taikei [A compedium of Japanese ceramics], vol. 20, Kakiemon (Tokyo, 1989), pl.16, which is in the Toguri Museum, and in Ashmolean Museum, Eastern Ceramics and other Works of Art from the collection of Gerald Reitlinger: Catalogue of the Memorial Exhibition (Oxford, 1981), no. 214. Another with a replacement cover and a European silver-gilt handle was exhibited in Porcelain for Palaces: The Fashion for Japan in Europe, 1650-1750, (London, 1990), no. 80.