18TH CENTURY
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An unusual pair of Imari octagonal jars and covers
18th Century
Of baluster shape, painted with erotically tinged panels of a bijin standing at the door of a pavilion looking at two amorous doves perched in a tree, below three quatrefoil panels on the shoulder enclosing a small child watching a bijin writing calligraphy whilst her kimono falls over one shoulder to reveal a breast, all reserved on an underglaze-blue ground with scrolling foliage and peony blooms, the high domed cover with karashishi finial (damages, one cover European)
62.5 cm high (2)
18th Century
Of baluster shape, painted with erotically tinged panels of a bijin standing at the door of a pavilion looking at two amorous doves perched in a tree, below three quatrefoil panels on the shoulder enclosing a small child watching a bijin writing calligraphy whilst her kimono falls over one shoulder to reveal a breast, all reserved on an underglaze-blue ground with scrolling foliage and peony blooms, the high domed cover with karashishi finial (damages, one cover European)
62.5 cm high (2)