EDO PERIOD (LATE 17TH CENTURY)

Details

An Imari coffee-pot and cover
Edo Period (Late 17th Century)
Decorated to the sides with the Shijifukujin, or the Seven Lucky Gods, in relief, below a band of quatrefoil cartouches enclosing buddhistic symbols alternated by rabbits on a washed-blue ground, raised on three scroll feet and set with a loop handle and a bronze tap, the domed cover surmounted by a bud finial, cover restored, some firing cracks
40.3 cm. high

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Lot Essay

The shape of this coffee-pot, which also may have been used for tea, is adapted from a Dutch silver prototype. For a similar coffee-pot, see Nippon no Toji, volume 8, p.102, pl.194. For a silver urn, see Howard and Ayers, China for the West, London, 1978, vol.I., p.128.

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