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AN ARITA TANKARD
EDO PERIOD, LATE 17TH CENTURY
伊万里 染付タンカード、江戸時代、17世紀後期
oviform, with applied loop handle, decorated in underglaze
blue with panels depicting landscapes bordered by bands of
scrolling karakusa
23.5 cm, 9¼ in. high
A similar example in the Soame Jenyns Collection is on view at
the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, collection no. J111.
For a further example see Oliver Impey, Japanese Export
Porcelain: Catalogue of the Collection of the Ashmolean
Museum, Oxford, (Amsterdam, 2002), p.54, no.34.
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60 £ 1,500-2,000
€ 1,700-2,300 US$ 2,000-2,650
AN ARITA DISH
EDO PERIOD, LATE 17TH CENTURY
FUKU MARK
伊万里 染付皿、江戸時代、17世紀後期、福印
the deep dish with upturned foliate rim, decorated in
underglaze blue with a crane among bamboo
27.5 cm, 10⅞ in.
For a similar dish with cranes see Nezu Museum, Ko-Imari:
A Catalogue of Hizen Porcelain from the Nezu Mueseum’s
Yamamoto Collection (Tokyo, 2017), pl. 47 p. 23
28cm diameter
£ 1,000-1,500
€ 1,150-1,700 US$ 1,350-2,000 Drayton House, Northamptonshire
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A PAIR OF ARITA EWERS A PAIR OF ARITA SQUARE BOTTLE VASES
EDO PERIOD, LATE 17TH CENTURY (TOKKURI)
EDO PERIOD, LATE 17TH CENTURY
伊万里 染付水注 一対、江戸時代、17世紀後期
伊万里 染付角徳利 一対、江戸時代、17世紀後期
each oviform with tall necks, loop handles and spouts
decorated in underglaze blue with figurative scenes of rectangular form with canted shoulders and everted
(2) rounded neck rims, moulded in relief with panels of geometric
each: 20 cm, 7⅞ in. high design, decorated in underglaze blue
A similar example is in the collection of the Ashmolean (2)
Museum, Oxford, accession no. EA1978.737. each: 25.9 cm, 10¼ in.
£ 2,000-3,000 PROVENANCE
€ 2,300-3,400 US$ 2,650-3,950 Lady Betty Germain, Drayton House, Northamptonshire
The collections at Drayton House were formed by Sir John
Germain, an Anglo-Dutch soldier of fortune, and his wife Lady
Betty Germain. Their porcelain is listed in an inventory drawn
up on 14th September 1710. It is possible that the above
lot is listed where the “cornice” of the State Bedroom was,
garnished with “two little blue and white rollwagons, two china
bottles, ...”
£ 5,000-8,000
€ 5,700-9,100 US$ 6,600-10,600
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