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AN ORIBE STONEWARE DISH A KO-IMARI BLUE-AND-WHITE VASE
Edo period (17th century) Edo period (18th century)
The buff clay body molded as an open blossom with short, lobed Ovoid form with a short neck and slightly splayed foot rim, decorated
sides and set on three loop feet, the decoration divided into two in underglaze blue with three clusters of flowering autumn plants
contrasting sections, one side covered with copper-green glaze, the With a wood storage box
other painted to the interior in underglaze iron oxide and white slip with 9 3/4in (24.7cm) high
scattered blossoms and multiple lines defining the individual petals $3,000 - 4,000
and which continue on the exterior
With a wood storage box ANOTHER PROPERTY
5 3/4in (14.9cm) wide
$5,000 - 6,000 3206
A PAIR OF SOFT-PASTE BLUE-AND-WHITE SAKE FLASKS
3203 Edo period (late 17th/early 18th century)
A KI-SETO STONEWARE TRIPOD CENSER Each of square section surmounted by a short waisted neck,
Edo period (17th century) decorated on the sides and shoulder in muted shades of underglaze
The low ovoid body with waisted neck, short everted rim and raised blue on a cream crackled ground with a continuous landscape of
on three splayed supports, covered overall in a fine crackle pale-yellow pavilions and wooded cliffs along a waterway
glaze stopping short to reveal the grayish-red clay body, the sides 8 1/4 and 8in (21 and 20.2cm) high
and rim with bold splashes of copper-green glaze; fitted with a later $3,500 - 4,500
rounded lid of copper pierced with a design of hagi (bush clover), the
blossoms heightened with gold A very similar flask is illustrated in Soame Jenyns’, Japanese Pottery,
With a wood storage box London, 1971, fig. 120c, and identified as possible Tangen ware.
4 1/2in (11.6cm) diameter
$2,500 - 3,500

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AN IRON-GLAZED KO-IMARI DISH
Edo period (late 17th century)

Molded in the shape of a leaf, the veins raised in relief and covered
in a thick brown iron-oxide glaze, the rim painted in cobalt blue, the
surface of the dish further decorated with a trailing vine of wisteria in
black enamel and gold and silver
7 x 5 3/8in (17.7 x 13.8cm)
$2,000 - 3,000

The use of both gold and silver painted designs on iron-oxide
grounds seems to have fallen out of fashion after around 1670. For
related dishes with both gold and silver painted designs, see Imari,
Nabeshima Gyarari shozohin zuroku (Imari, Nabeshima Gallery
Collection Catalog), Imari City, 2003, pl. 128-129.

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