A large blue and white porcelain jar

HIZEN WARE, EDO PERIOD (17TH-18TH CENTURY)

Details

A large blue and white porcelain jar
Hizen ware, Edo period (17th-18th century)
Of high-shouldered ovoid form with tall, upright neck, painted on the body with two panels of a tiger snarling at a dragon amidst bamboo and plum trees separated by stylized clouds, with foliate whorl collar to neck and flower band to the foot, all executed in underglaze blue beneath a glossy transparent glaze
23½in. (59.6cm.) high

Provenance

Mrs. Walter Sedgwick

Literature

The Oriental Ceramic Society, ed., introduction by Soame Jenyns, Catalogue of an Exhibition of Japanese Porcelain Held by the Oriental Ceramic Society (London: The Oriental Ceramic Society, 1956), no. 7 [exhibition sticker on base of jar].

Exhibited

Oriental Ceramic Society, London, "Loan Exhibition of Japanese Porcelain," 1956.3.28-4.28

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Lot Essay

Sedgwick was a lender to the important Oriental Ceramic Society exhibition in London in 1956. Fellow lenders included Richard de la Mare, Soame Jenyns, Gerald Reitlinger, Sir Harry Garner, William Winkworth, Lord Ilchester, Sir John Figgess and G. M. Gompertz. "The great interest of this exhibition," Jenyns wrote in the catalogue introduction, "lies in the fact that it is the first of its kind to draw attention to the 17th century Arita and Kutani porcelains in England, which up to very recent time have been wholly neglected by European students of ceramics, and whose existence and variety are, I suspect, scarcely realized by the Japanese themselves."

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