A Japanese Arita kakiemon-style oviform jar and cover

1660-80

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A Japanese Arita kakiemon-style oviform jar and cover
1660-80
The rounded sides painted in iron-red, turquoise, underglaze-blue and yellow enamels with birds among dense flower-sprays, below an iron-red cell-pattern band at the shoulder, the cover painted en suite, with chrysanthemum-head finial, crack to cover, small rim chip, crackled glaze
17.5 cm. high

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Lot Essay

The design with the two birds placed amongst dense foliage is reminiscent of Chinese decoration. A similar example with later Dutch silver cover is illustrated in C.J.A. Jörg, Fine & Curious- Japanese Export Porcelain in Dutch Collections, Amsterdam, 2003, p. 61, ill. 45.

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