EDO PERIOD (LATE 17TH CENTURY)

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A PAIR OF KAKIEMON OVOID VASES
Edo Period (Late 17th Century)
Each decorated in iron-red, vivid yellow, blue, green and black enamels, with a continuous wide band of butterflies hovering among peonies, chrysanthemums and other flowers and foliage interspersed with walkways and verandas, the shoulder with a formal band in the Chinese manner beneath two enamel bands of yellow and blue, the neck with a band of hanabishi, one jar with base cracks
8 7/8in. (22.5cm.) and 8¾in. (22.3cm.) high respectively (2)

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Lot Essay

A similar vase is illustrated in Nihon Toji Zenshu [Complete Collection of Japanese Ceramics], vol. 24, 'Kakiemon' (Tokyo, 1976), pl. 9 and Ashmolean Museum, Eastern Ceramics and other Works of Art from the Collection of Gerald Reitlinger: Catalogue of the Memorial Exhibition (Oxford, 1981), pl. 158.
A pair of similar vases in the collection of Schloss Wilhemsthal, Kassel, Hessen, are illustrated in Kunst und Antiquitaten, Heft 111, 1986) and another from Arniston House are illustrated in Mark Hinton and Oliver Impey, Flowers of Fire: Kakiemon Porcelain from the English Country House (London, 1989), pl. 36.
A bowl and cover decorated with the same design is illustrated in Seizo Hayashiya, Nihon no Toji [Japanese ceramics], vol. 9, 'Kakiemon', (Tokyo, 1974), no. 6.

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