A KUTANI WINE POT AND COVER

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A KUTANI WINE POT AND COVER
EDO PERIOD (2ND HALF 18TH CENTURY)

Of rectangular shape with four canted corners and flat shoulder supporting a tall, u-shaped handle and domed lid fitted with bud-form stopper and with a long, rounded-rectangular spout, decorated in enamels of green, red, blue and yellow on the sides with shaped panels of flowers on an red ground and on the end with a longevity medallion reserved on a ground of fretwork, the shoulder patterned with leaves, the domed lid aubergine and black and the handle matching red--6 in. (15.1 cm.) high, 5 1/2 in. (13.3 cm.) long