CIRCA 1700

Details

An Arita blue and white cruet jug
Circa 1700
With side loop handle, painted with central roundels bearing the letter 'A', on a ground of scrolling flower sprays and foliage
10.5 cm. high

Exhibited

Leeuwarden, Gemeentelijk Museum Het Princessehof, Japans blauw wit porselein op Hollandse bestelling en in de japanse smaak, 10 April - 19 June 1981, fig. 115.

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Lot Essay

See illustration on page 128.

See Oliver Impey, Japanese Export Porcelain, Catalogue of the Collection of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford,, Amsterdam, 2002, p. 107, no. 124 for a similar example.

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