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See Oliver Impey, Japanese Export Porcelain, Catalogue of the Collection of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford,, Amsterdam, 2002, p. 105, no. 118 for a similar example.
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LATE 17TH CENTURY
Details
Two Arita blue and white apothecary flasks
Late 17th Century
With rounded bodies, tapering necks and double-everted rims, painted with birds in flight and perched on branches of peonies and pomegranates, the shoulders with flower-sprays and foliage, the necks filled with cork stoppers, one cracked
22.5 cm. and 23 cm. high (2)
Late 17th Century
With rounded bodies, tapering necks and double-everted rims, painted with birds in flight and perched on branches of peonies and pomegranates, the shoulders with flower-sprays and foliage, the necks filled with cork stoppers, one cracked
22.5 cm. and 23 cm. high (2)
Exhibited
Leeuwaarden, Gemeentelijk Museum Het Princessehof, Japans blauw wit porselein op Hollandse bestelling en in de japanse smaak, 10 April - 19 June 1981, fig. 68.
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