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A SMALL JAPANESE KYOTO WARE TEA CADDY A LARGE JAPANESE KYOTO A JAPANESE KUTANI BOTTLE VASE
MEIJI PERIOD, 19 OR 20 CENTURY WARE BOX AND COVER MEIJI PERIOD, LATE 19 CENTURY
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The gourd-shaped body decorated in thick yellow, green MEIJI PERIOD, 19 CENTURY With a tall cylindrical neck rising from a
and black enamels with panels variously enclosing cranes, The squat circular body and lid square-section body, each side decorated with a
a samurai, buildings in a mountainous landscape and a fox decorated with branches of flowering panel variously enclosing figures in gardens, a lion
dressed as a farmer on a dense ground of brocade patterns, prunus, the flowers painted in thick dog and a bird of prey, with further panels to the
with hoju-no-tama, the wish-fulfilling jewels, and roundels white and navy-blue enamels and shoulder, the neck and foot painted with red and
shaped as dragons, the lid with a loop handle and a band the pistils in gilt, the base signed in gilt scrolling tendrils and brocade designs, 24.5cm.
of key fret, 12cm. (2) red enamels under the Shimazu mon, £200-300
PLEASE NOTE THIS LOT IS TO BE OFFERED WITHOUT 29cm dia. (2)
RESERVE. £200-400
£100-200
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TWO JAPANESE VASES TWO JAPANESE BLUE AND A PAIR OF JAPANESE KUTANI VASES
MEIJI PERIOD OR LATER, 20 CENTURY WHITE VASES MEIJI PERIOD, 19 CENTURY
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One cylindrical and painted with poppies in Kakiemon MEIJI PERIOD, 19 CENTURY Both decorated in polychrome and gilt with
style, together with an associated wood stand, the other The tall baluster-shaped bodies many figures in a continuous river landscape,
mallet-shaped and decorated with two panels of ho-ho birds decorated with bands of flowerheads some standing at a balcony and others on small
on a ground of iron-red geometrical designs, the base with and tendrils to the neck and foot, one pleasure barges, the elegant shape of Mount Fuji
an impressed mark, 19.5cm and 25.8cm respectively. (3) vase painted with sparrows amongst towering above them, with rich brocade patterns
£200-300 flowering prunus and peonies, the other to the shoulders and feet, the bases signed
Kutani, Nishinoura tsukuru Murakami ga, both
with a couple and a small child resting
Provenance: Lionel de Rothschild (1882-1942), Edmund de under a pine tree, both signed Kan sei, 29.5cm. (2)
Rothschild (1916-2009), the Trustees of Exbury House. both 31cm. (2) £300-500
£200-300
24 See paragraphs 4 & 5 of our conditions of business at the back of the catalogue for additional charges on the final hammer prices