Lot 315
315
THE PROPERTY OF A NOBLEMAN
A FINE KAKIEMON VASE AND COVER decorated in various coloured enamels with a continuous band of chrysanthemum and hibiscus springing from rocky piles, the shoulder of square section and bearing a band of lappets underneath an iron-red zig-zag pattern on the straight neck, all within lines of underglaze blue, motifs repeated on the slightly domed lid, disc-shaped knop finial (cover with slight chip), late 17th century

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A FINE KAKIEMON VASE AND COVER decorated in various coloured enamels with a continuous band of chrysanthemum and hibiscus springing from rocky piles, the shoulder of square section and bearing a band of lappets underneath an iron-red zig-zag pattern on the straight neck, all within lines of underglaze blue, motifs repeated on the slightly domed lid, disc-shaped knop finial (cover with slight chip), late 17th century
25.7cm.high

Lot Essay

A similar example is in the Burghley House collection, illustrated in The Burghley Porcelains, Japan Society, New York, 1986, no. 74, and M. Hinton, O.Impey "Flowers of Fire", Kakiemon Porcelain from the English Country House, 1989, No. 11. A similar vase is illustrated in Soame Jenyns Japanese Porcelain, Faber & Faber, London 1965, No. 54a, where it states that another piece in Japan is described as "probably by Kakiemon I", who died in 1666

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