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

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A FINE AND RARE KAKIEMON VASE Similar examples are in the Royal Collection at Hampton Court
EDO PERIOD, LATE 17TH CENTURY Palace, the collection of the Duke of Marlborough at Blenheim
Palace, the collection of the Duke of Bedford at Woburn Abbey,
柿右衛門 色絵三方割壺、江戸時代、17世紀後期
the Victoria & Albert Museum and the Tokyo National Museum.
oviform with short ring neck and deep foot rim, decorated in For the example at Blenheim Palace, see Mark Hinton and
iron red, green, yellow, aubergine, blue and black enamels, with Oliver Impey, Kakiemon Porcelain from the English Country
three panels each containing two Chinese figures, one under a House (London, 1989), pl. 35 p. 57
parasol and the other with a fan, amongst plum and bamboo For further examples in Japanese collections see Kurita
issuing from rockwork, a bird perched in the upper bowing Museum: http:/www.kurita.or.jp/imari/catalog/index.htm
branches, the panels divided by flowerheads and scrolling (ref.no. 56); Imaizumi Motosuke, Genshoku Nihon no meito
foliage, the neck and foot with underglaze blue circumferential Ko-Imari to Kakiemon [Important Japanese polychrome
lines alternately bordering flowers and a geometric design ceramics: Ko-Imari and Kakiemon] (Tokyo, 1970), pl. 67; Kurita
30 cm, 11⅞ in. high
Hideo, Kurita korekushon kiseki to tenkai/History of the Kurita
This is one of the grandest designs in Kakiemon and was Collection and Museum (Tokyo, 1990), unnumbered color pl.;
much coveted in European collections. The largest group of Hayashiya Seizo, Kakiemon, vol. 9 of Nihon no toji (Tokyo,
these vases is in the collection of Augustus the Strong Elector 1974), pl. 94; ibid, Kakiemon/Nabeshima, vol. 6 of Nihon no
of Saxony in Dresden. The collections are currently being toji (Tokyo, 1972), pl. 94; Nagatake Takeshi, Yabe Yoshiaki
catalogued by Dr. Christiaan J. A. Jorg. and Minamoto Hiromichi, eds., Kakiemon no sekai: genryu
kara gendai made [Exhibition of the world of Kakiemon: from
The shape is Chinese and the panel design shows two its origins to the present], exh. cat. (Fukuoka, 1983), pl. 8
Chinese figures, one holding a Chinese-style fan, the other (Sakaida Kakiemon Collection).
a domed parasol. The inspiration for the composition of
plum, chrysanthemum and bamboo with oversized bird In a painting by Augustin Terwesten on the ceiling of Schloss
and blossoms comes from the Chinese enamels of the late Oranienburg in Berlin (see above), there is a vase of this
Kangxi period (1662-1722), and the figure types can be found shape and pattern. As this ceiling was completed by 1695 this
on 17 century Chinese blue and white export wares of the provides a secure terminus ad quem date for the type.
th
Transitional period (1620-83).
‡ £ 60,000-80,000
€ 68,000-90,500 US$ 79,000-106,000

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