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A KO-IMARI BLUE-AND-WHITE ‘VOC’ SMALL DISH Similar dishes with variations on the design are illustrated by
Edo period (1615-1868), circa 1700 Oliver Impey, ibid., p.128, nos.169 and 170.
Painted in typical style with a bird flitting amid stylised plants around
the VOC monogram within a circle, the border painted with panels of 144
stylised flowers; with a wood stand. A FINE KAKIEMON JAR
21.2cm (8 3/8in) diameter. (2). Edo period (1615-1868), late 17th century
Of ovoid form with short everted neck, painted in rich enamels with a
£3,000 - 3,500 lake scene, small huts on a promontory with a moored boat and masts
JPY440,000 - 510,000 on the shore line, amid willow and pine trees, beneath a border of
US$3,900 - 4,600 stylised clouds, and bands of blue and yellow enamel.
20.3cm (8in) high.
Provenance
Justice R. P. Davis Collection. £15,000 - 18,000
JPY2,200,000 - 2,600,000
143 US$20,000 - 24,000
A KAKIEMON DISH
Edo period (1615-1868), circa 1700 For similar jars, see Hayashiya Seizo, Nihon no toji (Ceramics
Painted in underglaze blue with a landscape of two boats in a river, of Japan), Tokyo, Chuokoronsha, 1989, vol.9, no.42; Motosuke
two travellers crossing a bridge and huts among distant mountains, Imaizumi, Shoki Arita to Ko-Kutani (Early Arita and Old Kutani), Tokyo,
within a border of pomegranates, peony and camellia in enamels and Yuzankaku, pl.85; Toguri Bijutsukan (Toguri Museum of Art), Ko-Imari:
underglaze blue. 25.3cm (10in) diameter. Zohinsenshu (Old Imari Ware), exhibition catalogue, Tokyo, 1991,
p.81, no.137; Asahi Shinbunsha Seibu Honsha Kikakubu, Kakiemon
£2,000 - 3,000 no sekai: Genryu kara gendai made (The World of Kakiemon from Its
JPY290,000 - 440,000 Origins to the Present), Fukuoka, Asahi Shinbunsha Seibu Honsha
US$2,600 - 3,900 Kikakubu, 1983, p.29, no.24; Richard S. Cleveland, 200 Years of
Japanese Porcelain, exhibition catalogue, City Museum of Saint
For a slightly smaller dish of the same design, see Oliver Impey, Louis and Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, 1970, p.93,
Japanese Export Porcelain, Catalogue of the Collection of the no.80; and Nagatake Takeshi and Imura Yukihiko eds., Nihon no bi
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Amsterdam, Hotei Publishing, 2002, no bi: Kareinaru Ko-Imari: Kakiemon, Imari, Satsuma (The Beauty
p.128, no.168; Nagatake Takeshi and Imura Yukihiko eds., Nihon no of Japanese Beauty: Glorious Ko-Imari: Kakiemon, Imari, Satsuma),
bi no bi: Kareinaru Ko-Imari: Kakiemon, Imari, Satsuma (The Beauty Kyoto, Kyoto Bisho, 1980, no.32.
of Japanese Beauty: Glorious Ko-Imari: Kakiemon, Imari, Satsuma),
Kyoto, Kyoto Bisho, 1980, no.28.

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