CIRCA 1700

Details

A pair of Japanese Arita 'Van Frytom' sweetmeat dishes
CIRCA 1700
Of shaped oval form, painted after Frederik van Frytom with a scene of an equestrian figure riding towards a couple walking in a hilly Italianate landscape with buildings and leaning spruce to the centre, the everted rim with a blue-washed border, the bases with four spur marks and a Chinese Chenghua mark
12 cm. wide (2)

Provenance

Christie's, London, 6 March 1989, lot 372.

Special notice

Christie's charge a premium to the buyer on the final bid price of each lot sold at the following rates: 23.8% of the final bid price of each lot sold up to and including €150,000 and 14.28% of any amount in excess of €150,000. Buyers' premium is calculated on the basis of each lot individually.

Lot Essay

For a similar example see Japan Society, New York, The Burghley Porcelains: An Exhibition from the Burghley House Collection and Based on the 1688 Inventory and 1690 Devonshire Schedule, New York, 1986, p. 169, pl. 60.

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