AN ARITA KENDI IN KAKIEMON STYLE

Details

AN ARITA KENDI IN KAKIEMON STYLE
EDO PERIOD (THIRD QUARTER 17TH CENTURY)

The globular body moulded on both sides with the figure of Hotei holding his bag, with bulb-form spout and faceted, tubular neck and everted petal rim, decorated in green and blue colored enamels and iron-red with floral and fan shapes below a moulded ring of lappets at the shoulder- 7 1/2 in. (19 cm.) high, 6 1/2 in. (16.6cm.) in diameter, damages restored

Provenance

Drayton House
J and B Germain

Lot Essay

A nearly identical kendi, or gorgelet, identified as Arita ware, early Kakiemon style, probably Empo/Tenwa period (1673-1685), is illustrated in Soame Jenys, Japanese Porcelain (London and Boston, 1965), no. 53B; another kendi also moulded with double figures of Hotei from the collection of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, is illustrated and also described as early enamel ware in Kakiemon palette John Ayers, Oliver Impey, J. V. G. Mallet, Porcelain for Palaces (London, 1990), no. 91