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A KAKIEMON VASE For another in the collection of the Dukes of A PAIR OF KAKIEMON VASES
EDO PERIOD, LATE 17TH CENTURY Marlborough, Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, EDO PERIOD, LATE 17TH CENTURY
see Mark Hinton and Oliver Impey, Kakiemon
柿右衛門 色絵三方割壺、江戸時代、17世紀 柿右衛門 色絵壺 一対、江戸時代、
後期 Porcelain from the English Country House 17世紀後期
(London, 1989), pl. 35 p. 57
oviform with short ring neck and deep foot rim, For other comparable vases see John Ayers, Far the sixteen sided faceted vases with short necks
decorated in iron red, green, yellow, aubergine, Eastern Ceramics in the Victoria & Albert Museum decorated in iron red, green, yellow, blue and
blue and black enamels, with three panels each (London, 1980), pl 260; Soame Jenyns, Japanese black enamels with peony, chrysanthemum and
containing two Chinese figures, one under Porcelain (London, 1965), no. 57b (ex. coll. pomegranate among rockwork and grasses, the
a parasol and the other with a fan, amongst Richard de la Mare); John Ayers et al., Porcelain panels divided by floral tendril
plum and bamboo issuing from rockwork, a for Palaces: The Fashion for Japan in Europe 1650 (2)
bird perched in the upper bowing branches, – 1750, exh. cat. (London, 1990), pl. 138 (also coll. each: 20 cm, 7⅞ in. high
the panels divided by flowerheads and scrolling Porzellansammlung, Dresden); Gervase Jackson-
foliage, the neck and foot with underglaze blue Stops, ed., The Treasure Houses of Britain, exh. £ 30,000-40,000
circumferential lines alternately bordering flowers cat., National Gallery of Art, (Washington, D. € 33,800-45,100 US$ 39,500-53,000
and a geometric design C., 1985), pl. 131 (coll. Woburn Abbey); Yabe
30.3 cm, 12 in. high Yoshiaki, ed., Imari, Nihon no bijiutsu 6, no. 157 Lot 68 illustrated opposite
For a similar Kakiemon vase in the collection (Tokyo, 1979), no. 121 (coll. Matsuoka Museum);
of Augustus the Strong, Dresden, see Friedrich ibid, Kakiemon, vol. 20 of Nihon toji taisei
Reichel, Early Japanese Porcelain: Arita Porcelain [Compendium of Japanese ceramics] (Tokyo,
in the Dresden Collection (Leipzig, 1980), pl. 18. 1989), pl. 36 (coll. Matsuoka Museum)
£ 15,000-20,000
€ 16,900-22,600 US$ 19,800-26,400
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