EDO PERIOD (CIRCA 1680)

Details

A rare Kakiemon figure of a boy
Edo Period (circa 1680)
Modelled seated on a shogi table, holding a puppy in his arms, wearing a one-piece garment tied around his neck and back, a smiling expression on his face, decorated in iron-red, blue, green, yellow and black enamels, the shogi table with underglaze blue rulings and stylised scrolling foliage around a peony to each side, raised on four feet, the puppy restuck and with three minute chips
21.5 cm. high

Special notice

Christie's charge a buyer's premium of 20.825% of the hammer price for lots with values up to NLG 200,000. If the hammer price exceeds the NLG 200,000 then the premium is calculated at 20.825% of the first NLG 200,000 plus 11.9% of any amount in excess of NLG 200,000.

Lot Essay

A slightly different example was sold in our London Rooms on 15 November 1994, lot 814. Compare also in Eastern Ceramics, Gerald Rietlinger, The Ashmolean Museum Oxford, 1981, pl.176.
See for another example without the puppy and with pierced table top to hold writing brushes, The Burghley Porcelains, Japan Society, New York, 1986, p.230, pl.94.

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