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An Arita blue and white oviform jar and cover
CIRCA 1680
Details
An Arita blue and white oviform jar and cover Circa 1680
Painted with panels of a lady on a riverbank holding a parasol, ducks before a riverside pavilion in a mountainous landscape and birds perched in branches in a flowering garden, the shoulder with a band of scrolling karakusa, the neck with a border of lappet, the cover similarly decorated
34.5 cm. high
Exhibited
Leeuwarden, Gemeentelijk Museum Het Princessehof, Japans blauw en wit porselein op Hollandse bestelling, 10 April - 19 June 1981, fig. 50.
Special notice
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Lot Essay
A similar jar was sold at Christie's London, 14 & 15 November 1994, lot 777.