EDO PERIOD (LATE 17TH CENTURY)

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A Rare Kakiemon Model of a Boy Seated on a Go Board
Edo Period (late 17th century)
The model decorated in iron-red, green, blue, yellow and black enamels, the boy wearing a singlet, holding a puppy in his lap, the board with the squares delineated in underglaze blue, the sides with plum, peony and bamboo, on four feet
21.5cm. high

Provenance

Purchased in Russia around 1829 and thence by descent.

Lot Essay

There are several variants of this model and this example has a rare design to the sides of the go board, often depicting only scrolling foliage. For further examples see Oliver Impey, Japanese Export Porcelain - Catalogue of The Collection of The Ashmolean Museum Oxford, (Amsterdam, 2002), no. 188, p. 137, (for the example in the Reitlinger Collection); Japan Society, New York, The Burghley Porcelains: An Exhibition from the Burghley House Collection and Based on the 1688 Inventory and 1690 Devonshire Schedule (New York, 1986), pl. 94, p.230-1 and for an example in the Kyushu Ceramic Museum see Shibata V (Tokyo, 1997), no.62. The example in the Victoria and Albert Museum is of a boy holding two monkeys.

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