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AN IMARI BLUE AND WHITE TWO BLUE AND WHITE A KAKIEMON SHALLOW DISH
LARGE DEEP BOWL PORCELAIN BOTTLES Edo period (1615-1868), circa 1680-1700
Edo period (1615-1868), late 17th century Edo period (1615-1868), 17th century Painted in blue, turquoise, and red enamels
Boldly painted in underglaze blue on the Each of globular form surmounted by a tall and gilt, and partly drawn in black, depicting
exterior with a continuous design of two neck with an everted rim, the first sketchily two birds, one flying by tall flowering pine,
dragons clutching a flaming tama (jewel) painted with a flower and foliage beneath a plum and bamboo (‘Three Friends’ of winter
above a narrow geometric band, the interior scrolled band, 30.3cm (12in) high; the second that flourish at the same time), growing by
well painted with a coiled dragon beneath the painted with the characters, Fuasa in kanji a triple-banded hedge, the second bird
rim with a border of stylized foliate pendants script on one side and the same in hiragana perched on the bamboo stem, all within a
enclosed within lobed rectangular panels. script on the other; 24cm (9½in) high. (2). brown-glazed rim. 21.5cm (8½in).
17.5cm x 32.8cm (6 7/8in x 12 7/8in).
£1,000 - 1,500 £8,000 - 10,000
£1,500 - 2,000 JPY130,000 - 200,000 JPY1,100,000 - 1,300,000
JPY200,000 - 260,000 US$1,200 - 1,900 US$9,900 - 12,000
US$1,900 - 2,500
For the first type, see, Toguri Bijutsukan Variations of this popular design are illustrated
Provenance: (Toguri Museum of Art), Ko-Imari: Zohinsenshu in Asahi Shinbunsha Seibu Honsha Kikakubu,
Eskenazi Ltd., London. (Old Imari Ware), exhibition catalogue, Kakiemon no sekai: Genryu kara gendai made
Tokyo, 1991, p.44, nos.81-85; Oliver Impey, (The World of Kakiemon from Its Origins to the
Japanese Export Porcelain, Catalogue of the Present), Fukuoka, Asahi Shinbunsha Seibu
Collection of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Honsha Kikakubu, 1983, p.83, no.99; Oliver
Amsterdam, Hotei Publishing, 2002, p.39, Impey, Japanese Export Porcelain, Catalogue
pl.3; and Soame Jenyns, Japanese Porcelain, of the Collection of the Ashmolean Museum,
London, Faber and Faber, 1965, pl.1B. Oxford, Amsterdam, Hotei Publishing, 2002,
p.160, no.235.

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