A Group of Kakiemon-Style Ceramics

EDO PERIOD (MID-LATE 17TH CENTURY)

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A Group of Kakiemon-Style Ceramics
Edo Period (mid-late 17th century)
Comprising a pair of teabowls and saucers in early palette of iron-red, green, blue and black enamels with flowers and foliage; a teabowl with plum, bamboo and pine; and two underglaze blue dishes with ho-o birds among chrysanthemums and peony
7.3cm. diam. (teabowls), 6.5cm. diam. (teabowl), 13.5cm. diam. (dishes) (5)

Lot Essay

The teabowls and saucers with the red panelling are unusual in Kakiemon. A similar example is in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Reitlinger gift, 1978.602.

For similar examples of the dishes but decorated in enamels see Oliver Impey, Japanese Export Porcelain, Catalogue of the Collection of the Ashmolean Museum Oxford, (Amsterdam, 2002), pl.95 and 96, p.92.

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