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A SMALL KUTANI DISH A HIRADO TOKKURI [SAKE BOTTLE]
EDO PERIOD (MID-LATE 17TH CENTURY) EDO PERIOD (LATE 17TH - EARLY 18TH CENTURY)
古九谷色絵撫子文小皿 平戸染付山水文徳利
江戸時代（17世紀中後期） 江戸時代（17世紀後期-18世紀前期）
The shallow dish with waved rim on a short foot, decorated in iron-red, blue, green, Of octagonal form with slightly tapering sides, fat shoulder and short cylindrical
yellow, aubergine and black enamels with a roundel enclosing nadeshiko [wild pinks] neck, decorated in underglaze blue with a sketchy landscape depicting mountains,
and grasses pavilions and boats on water
15.2cm. diam. 14.5 cm. high
£700-1,000 $1,200-1,700 £8,000-10,000 $14,000-17,000
€860-1,200 €9,900-12,000

This dish is possibly an example from the 1660s, during the transition period from For similar examples see:
koKutani to Kakiemon. Although both have distinctively diferent features due to Soame Jenyns, Japanese Porcelain (London, 1965), pl. no. 110A (Victoria and Albert
the diferent audiences: koKutani for domestic daimyo, Kakiemon for export to the Museum)
European courts, this transition type has both characteristics such as Kutani’s rich
Louis Lawrence, Hirado: Prince of Porcelains (Encyclopaedia of Japanese Art Series),
coloured enamels of green, blue and yellow, but is more closely related
(Chicago, 1997), pl. 10
to Kakiemon.
Barbara Brennan Ford and Oliver Impey, Japanese Art from the Gerry Collection in
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, (New York, 1989), p. 119, no. 99
W. B. Honey, the Ceramic Art of China and Other Countries of the Far East,
(London, 1945), pl. 188A
Similar bottles sold in Christie’s London on July 23, 1968, lot 16 and on April 25,
1978, lot 62.

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