Details
AN IMARI SAUCEBOAT
Edo Period (Early 18th Century)
Decorated in iron-red, green and aubergine enamels and gilt on underglaze blue, the interior with peony blossom, ferns and leaves emerging from an elaborate vase, the exterior with a ho-o bird within two shaped panels, minute chip and some rubbing to enamels and gilt
9in. (24cm.) long
Literature
Oriental Ceramic Society, Porcelain for Palaces: The Fashion for Japan in Europe 1650-1750, (London, 1990), pl.42.
O. Vickers, O. Impey and J. Allan, From Silver to Ceramics, (Oxford, 1986), pl.56.
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