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6208                               PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF FAITH DOMERGUE

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      6210                            AN ORMOLU-MOUNTED IMARI PORCELAIN COFFEE POT
92 | BONHAMS                          Edo period (1615-1868), circa 1690
                                      Decorated in underglaze blue and touches of overglaze green enamel
                                      and black iron oxide, with a long-tailed bird on rocks in blossoming
                                      plants and another bird in flight above rocks and fruiting pomegranate
                                      trees, the conical vessel set on a flat base and applied with a curved
                                      handle painted with scrolling vines, the domed cover finished with a
                                      bead finial and mounted with a gilt-metal fitting with a seashell lever, a
                                      gilt-metal tap fitted into an opening above the base
                                      12in (30.5cm) high

                                      US$1,200 - 1,800

                                      Provenance
                                      Bulgari collection, Rome

                                      For a nearly identical coffee pot, see Christian J. A. Jörg, Fine and
                                      Curious, Japanese Export Porcelain in Dutch Collections, Amsterdam,
                                      Hotei Publishing, 2003, pl. 261, p. 204.

                                      PROPERTY OF VARIOUS OWNERS

                                      6209
                                      AN IMARI URN WITH COVER
                                      Edo period (1615-1868), early 18th century
                                      Decorated in red and black overglaze enamel, underglaze blue and gilt
                                      with two large panels, one of phoenix amid flowering paulownia, the
                                      other of a shishi with blossoming peonies, all below a shoulder band
                                      with reserves of butterflies or kestrels on a karakusa ground bordered
                                      by a thin ribbon tied in bows, the high dome-shaped lid with a shishi
                                      finial, decorated en suite
                                      19 1/8in (48.6cm) high

                                      US$2,500 - 3,500

                                      6210
                                      STYLE OF OGATA KENZAN
                                      Edo period (1615-1868), 18th century
                                      Stoneware, with flat bottom and straight sides formed as overlapping
                                      poem cards and decorated in iron-oxide covered in a clear, crackled
                                      glaze with a camellia and a poem, the sides with freely painted scroll
                                      motifs, inscribed Kenzan and illegibly sealed
                                      7in (17.8cm) wide

                                      US$3,000 - 5,000
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