An early enamelled vase
An early enamelled vase

EDO PERIOD (LATE 17TH CENTURY), MOUNTS AND COVER LATER

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.

拍品專文

This design with two birds placed among foliage is reminiscent of Chinese decoration.