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Detail of the ceiling of Schloss Oranienburg, Augustin Terwesten, 1695

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A LARGE KAKIEMON VASE at Blenheim Palace, the collection of the Duke of Bedford
EDO PERIOD, LATE 17 TH CENTURY at Woburn Abbey, the Victoria & Albert Museum and the
Tokyo National Museum.
柿右衛門 色絵壺、江戸時代、17世紀後期
For the example at Blenheim Palace, see Mark Hinton and
oviform with short ring neck and deep foot rim, Oliver Impey, Kakiemon Porcelain from the English Country
decorated in iron-red, green yellow, aubergine, blue and House (London, 1989), pl. 35 p. 57.
black enamels, with three panels each containing two
Chinese figures, one under a parasol and the other with a For further examples in Japanese collections see:
fan, amoungst plum and bamboo issuing from rockwork, Kurita Museum: http:/www.kurita.or.jp/imari/catalog/
a bird perched in the upper bowing branches, the panels index.htm (ref.no. 56).
divided by flowerheads and scrolling foliage, the neck and Imaizumi Motosuke, Genshoku Nihon no meito Ko-Imari
foot with underglaze blue circumferential lines alternately to Kakiemon [Important Japanese polychrome ceramics:
bordering flowers and geometric design Ko-Imari and Kakiemon] (Tokyo, 1970), pl. 67.
45.8 cm., 18 in. high.
Kurita Hideo, Kurita korekushon kiseki to tenkai/History
This is one of the grandest designs in Kakiemon and was of the Kurita Collection and Museum (Tokyo, 1990),
much coveted in European collections. The largest group unnumbered color pl.; Hayashiya Seizo, Kakiemon, vol.
of these vases is in the collection of Augustus the Strong 9 of Nihon no toji (Tokyo, 1974), pl. 94; ibid, Kakiemon/
Elector of Saxony in Dresden. The collections are currently Nabeshima, vol. 6 of Nihon no toji (Tokyo, 1972), pl. 94.
being catalogued by Dr. Christiaan J. A. Jörg, and recently
discussed in his lecture in November 2018, Porcelain Nagatake Takeshi, Yabe Yoshiaki and Minamoto Hiromichi,
Circling the Globe, as part of the Dresden Porcelain eds., Kakiemon no sekai: genryu kara gendai made
Project. [Exhibition of the world of Kakiemon: from its origins to
the present], exh. cat. (Fukuoka, 1983), pl. 8 (Sakaida
The shape is Chinese and the panel design shows two Kakiemon Collection).
Chinese figures, one holding a Chinese-style fan, the other
a domed parasol. The inspiration for the composition of In a painting by Augustin Terwesten on the ceiling of
plum, chrysanthemum and bamboo with oversized bird Schloss Oranienburg in Berlin (see above), there is a vase
and blossoms comes from the Chinese enamels of the late of this shape and pattern. As this ceiling was completed
Kangxi period (1662-1722), and the figure types can be by 1695 this provides a secure terminus ad quem date for
th
found on 17 century Chinese blue and white export wares the type.
of the Transitional period (1620-1683).
£ 120,000-180,000
Similar examples are in the Royal Collection at Hampton € 141,000-212,000 US$ 159,000-238,000
Court Palace, the collection of the Duke of Marlborough
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