Lot Essay
A similar example is in the Soame Jenyns Collection currently exhibited in the Marlay Gallery, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
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EDO PERIOD (LATE 17TH CENTURY)
Details
a kakiemon vase
Edo period (late 17th century)
Decorated in iron-red, green, yellow, blue and black enamels with a continuous design of butterflies above sprays of chrysanthemums and foliage amongst fences and verandahs, the base with three iron-red circumferential lines, the shoulders with bands of yellow and blue above a further band of lappets, the necks with a band of hanabishi
8 1/4in. (21 cm.)
Edo period (late 17th century)
Decorated in iron-red, green, yellow, blue and black enamels with a continuous design of butterflies above sprays of chrysanthemums and foliage amongst fences and verandahs, the base with three iron-red circumferential lines, the shoulders with bands of yellow and blue above a further band of lappets, the necks with a band of hanabishi
8 1/4in. (21 cm.)
Provenance
Arniston House
Literature
Mark Hinton and Oliver Impey, Flowers of Fire: Kakiemon Porcelain from the English Country House (London, 1989), no. 36
Exhibited
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
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