A Porcelain Beveled Bottle

ARITA WARE, EARLY IMARI TYPE, EDO PERIOD (CIRCA 1630)

Details

A Porcelain Beveled Bottle
Arita ware, Early Imari type, Edo Period (circa 1630)
With fluted body divided into eight recessed facets bordered by raised vertical ribs and with flaring mouth and short circular foot, decorated in cobalt-blue under a clear glaze of distinct blue cast with panels of blossoming plum and scrolling vines, the shoulder painted with stylized waves, the recessed base glazed, foot rim unglazed
8 1/4in. (20.9cm.) high

Provenance

Kochukyo Co. Ltd., Tokyo
N.V. Hammer, Inc., New York

Exhibited

"200 Years of Japanese Porcelain," shown at the following venues:
City Art Museum, Saint Louis, 1970.10.9--11.15
Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, 1970.12.3--1971.1.3

Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
Richard S. Cleveland, 200 Years of Japanese Porcelain, exh. cat. (Saint Louis: City Art Museum, 1970), no. 14.
Sera Yosuke, ed., Ko-Imari sometsuke zufu (Old Imari blue and white porcelain) (Kyoto: Heisando, 1959), no. 281.

For another faceted bottle with raised ribs in the collection of the MOA Museum, Atami, see Nagatake Takeshi and Yabe Yoshiaki, Imari, vol. 19 of Nihon toji taisei (Tokyo: Heibonsha, 1989), pl. 4.

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