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A NABESHIMA TOKKURI [SAKE BOTTLE]
EDO PERIOD (LATE 17TH - EARLY 18TH CENTURY)
鍋島染付空木文徳利
江戸時代（17世紀後期-18世紀前期）
Of globular form with tall straight neck, decorated in underglaze blue with delicately
painted utsugi (deutzia), ftted wood box
19.6cm. high
£25,000-30,000 $43,000-51,000
€31,000-37,000

PROVENANCE:
Yamashita Sakuro (1908-1985) and Seki Kazuo
EXHIBITED:
Nabeshima Exhibition, Iro Nabeshima: Nabeshima-han yoseki hakkutsu kinen,
Kyushu Ceramic Museum, 11 July - 1 August 1982
Nabeshima Exhibition, Nabeshima ten: waza to miyabi no kiwami, Arita Porcelain
Park Zwinger Palace Art Gallery, 12 October 1995 – 19 April 1996
PUBLISHED:
Imaizumi Imaemon VIII and Yabe Yoshiaki ed., Nabeshima ten: waza to miyabi no
kiwami, exhibition catalogue, (Saga, 1995), p. 86, no. 124
Imaizumi Motosuke, Nabeshima, vol. 21 of Toji taikei [A compendium of ceramics],
(Tokyo, 1972), no. 98
Nagatake Takeshi and Yabe Yoshiaki et. al., Iro Nabeshima: Nabeshima-han yoseki
hakkutsu kinen, (Fukuoka, 1982), p. 111
Hayashiya Seizo, ed., Nabeshima, vol. 10 of Nihon no Toji [Japanese ceramics],
(Tokyo, 1988), p. 141, no. 307

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