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TWO KAKIEMON DISHES
Edo period (1615-1868), late 17th/early 18th century
Each of shallow circular form raised on a low foot and decorated in
blue, green, yellow and iron-red enamels with an identical design in
the interior of three deer prancing around falling maple leaves; the
underside of the rim scattered with flowerheads.
Each approx. 4cm x 17.8cm (1½in x 7in). (2).

£3,500 - 4,500
JPY510,000 - 650,000
US$4,600 - 5,900
For the type, see Asahi Shinbunsha Seibu Honsha Kikakubu,
Kakiemon no sekai: Genryu kara gendai made (The World of Kakiemon
from Its Origins to the Present), Fukuoka, Asahi Shinbunsha Seibu
Honsha Kikakubu, 1983, no.136; Oliver Impey, Japanese Export
Porcelain: Catalogue of the Collection of the Ashmolean Museum,
Oxford, Amsterdam, Hotei Publishing, 2002, p.144, no.200; other
dishes featuring the running deer designs in blue-and-white porcelain
are illustrated in Kazuo Seki ed., Seiki Imari no bi (Beauty of Prime
Period Imari), Osaka, Ko-Imari Kankokai, 1990, nos.73-77.
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A LARGE BLUE-AND-WHITE PORCELAIN VASE
AND AN EWER
Edo period (1615-1868), mid to late 19th century
The vase of baluster form with a tall everted neck, painted and moulded
in relief with two dragons amid turbulent waves, the neck decorated
with panels of phoenix and foliage, 58.5cm (23in) high; the large ewer of
cylindrical form, fitted for a bamboo handle, painted with a landscape;
21.2cm (8 3/8in) high. (2).

£1,000 - 1,500
JPY150,000 - 220,000
US$1,300 - 2,000

LATER CERAMICS
Various Properties
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A GREEN-GLAZED TRUMPET-SHAPED TALL VASE
By Makuzu Kozan, Meiji (1868-1912)
or Taisho (1912-1926) era, early 20th century
Covered entirely with an even green glaze, each side with a tall
bracket handle in the form of a stylised tendril, signed on the base
with an impressed seal Makuzu; with a wood tomobako storage box
inscribed on the outside of the lid Kabin (flower vase), inside the lid
Seijiyu hiroguchi mimitsuki, Makuzu Kozan saku (Celadon glaze [vase]
with wide rim and handles, made by Makuzu Kozan) with seal Makuzu
Kozan no in, with a paper slip.
48cm x 39.5cm (19in x 15½in). (3).

£4,000 - 6,000
JPY580,000 - 870,000
US$5,200 - 7,800

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