CIRCA 1710-1725

Verte-Imari jars decorated in the Japanese Imari style are rare. However, there is a similar, smaller example from the Salting Bequest in the Victoria and Albert Museum, which was included in the O.C.S. Exhibition, 1990, Porcelain for Palaces, The Fashion for Japan in Europe, 1650-1750, Catalogue, no.256, p.257. Compare the pair of goblets with a very similar design of chrysanthemum roundels and trailing flowering foliage in the Mottahedeh collection, illustrated by D. Howard and J. Ayers, op.cit., 1978, vol.I, no.119. A pair of jars and covers almost identical to the present lot, belonging to Colonel Peter Arkwright, was sold in these Rooms, 11 June 1973, lot 34, and was illustrated by A. du Boulay, op.cit., 1984, p.261, fig.9. Compare also a small ormolu-mounted Japanese Imari cylindrical bowl and cover of circa 1700, which has a very closely related design of chrysanthemum 'mon' and floral sprays, illustrated by D.F. Lunsingh Scheurleer, Chinesisches und japanisches Porzellan in europischen Fassungen, 1980, p.408, fig.456.