EDO PERIOD (MID-LATE 17TH CENTURY)

Similar vases lacking covers are illustrated in Nihon Toji Zenshu [Complete Collection of Japanese Ceramics], vol. 24, Kakiemon (Tokyo, 1976), pl. 9 and Ashmolean Museum, Eastern Ceramics and other Works of Art from the Collection of Gerald Reitlinger: Catalogue of the Memorial Exhibition (Oxford, 1981), pl. 158. A pair of similar vases in the collection of Schloss Wilhemsthal, Kassel, Hessen, are illustrated in Kunst und Antiquitaten, (Heft 111, 1986) and another from Arniston House is illustrated in Mark Hinton and Oliver Impey, Flowers of Fire: Kakiemon Porcelain from the English Country House (London, 1989), pl. 36. A a similar pair without covers was sold Christie's London, 16th November 2000, Lot 124.