A Pair of Porcelain Faceted Vases
A Pair of Porcelain Faceted Vases

ARITA WARE, KAKIEMON STYLE, EDO PERIOD (LATE 17TH CENTURY) WITH FRENCH GILT-BRONZE MOUNTS (CIRCA 1720S)

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A Pair of Porcelain Faceted Vases
Arita Ware, Kakiemon Style, Edo period (late 17th century) with French gilt-bronze mounts (circa 1720s)
The pear-form bottles with tapering necks molded in eight sides and painted in polychrome enamels over transparent glaze with butterflies, chrysanthemums and autumn grasses, the necks decorated with suspended garlands of flower heads and foliate scroll, the lips painted with a gilt band; gilt-bronze French mounts cast with leaf scroll
10in. (25.5cm.) high with mounts (2)

拍品專文

A related bottle with the "three friends" motif in place of the butterflies and grasses was sold in these Rooms, 15 September, 1999, lot 95.

For a pair of similar bottles with European gilt-bronze mounts see Yabe Yoshiaki, Kakiemon, vol. 20 of Nihon toji taikei (Tokyo: Heibonsha, 1989), pl. 42.