A Porcelain Pear-Form Bottle

ARITA WARE, EDO PERIOD (1650-70)

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A Porcelain Pear-Form Bottle
Arita Ware, Edo Period (1650-70)
Decorated in polychrome enamels over clear glaze with three fan-shaped figural panels representing the 'Three Friends,' pine, plum and bamboo (Shochikubai), six small roundels at the base of the neck, a surrounding ground of red-enamel diaperwork and a garland of stylized floral lappets below the rolled lip, one large panel painted with a sage under a pine tree holding a large aubergine jewel and gazing outside the picture frame, one panel painted with a sage and page on an outcrop below a blossoming plum and also gazing down into the distance, and one panel painted with a sage holding an aubergine-enamel fan and regarding a stand of yellow, green and aubergine bamboo, two of the roundels designed with Taoist 'precious emblems,' one with a paulownia blossom and three with fretwork, a single line above and a double-line of red enamel around the raised foot, foot rim unglazed
15.1/8in. (68.3cm.) high

拍品專文

For a virtually identical bottle in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (Gerald Reitlinger collection) see John Ayers, et al., Porcelain for Palaces: The Fashion for Japan in Europe 1650--1750, exh. cat. (London: Oriental Ceramic Society and British Museum, 1990), pl. 75; Ashmolean Museum and Sotheby Parke Bernet, eds., Eastern Ceramics and other works of art from the collection of Gerald Reitlinger, exh. cat. (London: Philip Wilson Publishers, Ltd., 1981), no. 215; Soame Jenyns, Japanese Porcelain (London: Faber and Faber, Ltd., 1965), no. 85B; Catalogue of an exhibition of Japanese porcelain, intro. by Soame Jenyns (London: The Oriental Ceramic Society, 1956), cat. no. 55; William Watson, ed., The Great Japan Exhibition: Art of the Edo Period 1600--1868, exh. cat. (London: Royal Academy of Arts, 1981), no. 213.