Lot Essay
A square sak flask of this shape in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (1978.513) was exhibited at the British Museum, Porcelain for Palaces, The Fashion for Japan in Europe 1650-1750, 1990, London, p. 241, No. 263.
For a discussion on the historically important but still under-researched Dutch decorators of oriental porcelain in the first half of the 18th Century, see J.V.G Mallet, 'European Ceramics and the Influence of Japan,' op cit, pp, 39-44.
For a discussion on the historically important but still under-researched Dutch decorators of oriental porcelain in the first half of the 18th Century, see J.V.G Mallet, 'European Ceramics and the Influence of Japan,' op cit, pp, 39-44.