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THE PROPERTY OF A LADY
A KAKIEMON FIGURE OF A BIJIN
EDO PERIOD, LATE 17 TH CENTURY
of typical form, decorated in iron red,
yellow, blue, green and black enamels, her
undergarments with a geometric floral
design, her kimono with scattered maple
leaves
38.5 cm., 15 in. high
For similar examples, see Mark Hinton et
al., Courtly Display: The Somlyo Collection
of Japanese Ceramics, (London, 2015), p.
14; Motosuke Imaizumi, Genshoku Nihon no
Meito, Ko-Imari to Kakiemon, (Tokyo, 1969),
pl. 68.

£ 25,000-30,000
€ 28,100-33,700 US$ 31,100-37,300

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A RARE KAKIEMON MODEL OF
HOTEI
EDO PERIOD, LATE 17 TH CENTURY
decorated in iron-red, yellow, blue and black
enamels, the god smiling and seated on his 78
sack wearing black and red robes
26 cm., 10¼ in. high.
For a similar example painted in green,
red and aubergine, see Nagatake Takeshi,
Kakiemon: Nihon jiki akae no seika, koyo
hakkutsu (Fukuoka, 1976); and for another in
the Kurita Museum collection see http://www.
kurita.or.jp/imari/catalog/index (ref no. 90).
For an example with a different robe design
see Nagatake Takeshi, Yabe Yoshiaki and
Minamoto Hiromichi, eds., Kakiemon no.
Sekai: genryu kara gendai made [Exhibition of
the World of Kakiemon: from its origins to the
present], exh. cat., kuoka, 1983), p.49, pl.57.
Another example is in the Yamamoto
Collection at the Nezu Museum, see Ko-Imari
zukan: Yamamoto Collection so mokuroku
[Nezu Museum: Ko-Imari: A Catalogue of Hizen
Porcelain from the Nezu Museum’s Yamamoto
Collection], (Tokyo, 2017), p. 100, pl. 381-
4049.
For two similar examples in the Royal
Collections in the Chinese Pavillion at
Drottingsholm, Stockholm, inventoried 1777,
inv. FE 26/HGK 693, see Oliver Impey and
Christian Jörg, Japanese Export Lacquer: 1580
- 1850, (London, 2005), p. 322, pl. 66.

£ 15,000-20,000
€ 16,900-22,500 US$ 18,700-24,900
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