A Porcelain Model of a Courtesan with Incense Container

ARITA WARE, KAKIEMON STYLE, EDO PERIOD, 1670-90

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A Porcelain Model of a Courtesan with Incense Container
Arita Ware, Kakiemon Style, Edo period, 1670-90
Standing, the right hand supporting a large brazier for incense and the left held down and clasping the robe, the left foot showing from under the hem, the robes painted in polychrome enamels over the clear glaze, the underrobe with a diaper pattern of blue and red-enamel florets and the outerrobe with flower sprays and waterwheels, the coiffure and obi black enamel
16 5/16in. (42cm.) high

榮譽呈獻

Katsura Yamaguchi

kyamaguchi@christies.com 212-636-2160

拍品專文

The figure is unusual for its large size. For other models holding incense burners, see Kakiemon Chosa Iinkai, eds., Kakiemon (Saga City: Kinkado shoten, 1957), pl. 8 and Kakiemon ten: Yoroppa ni kaikashita iroe toji (Kakiemon exhibition: The flowering of polychrome ceramics in Europe), exh. cat. (Tokyo: Asahi Shinbunsha, 1993), pl. 83; Nagatake Takeshi, Yabe Yoshiaki and Minamoto Hiromichi, eds., Kakiemon no sekai: Genryu kara gendai made (Exhibition of the world of Kakiemon: From its origins to the present), exh. cat. (Tokyo: Asahi Shinbunsha, 1983), pl. 50.