CIRCA 1700

Details

An Imari miniature coffee-urn and cover
Circa 1700
Of conical form, painted and gilt wtih wild flowers and foliage, attached metal spout, 9 cm. high; and an Imari miniature teapot, similarly decorated, 6 cm. diam., some damages (2)

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Lot Essay

See illustration on page 130.

Miniatures were popular with upper middle class ladies who collected them for their elaborate doll's houses. For a similar coffee-urn, see Oliver Impey, Japanese Export Porcelain, Catalogue of the Collection of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford,, Amsterdam, 2002, p. 207, no. 345.

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