A fine Kakiemon jar Edo period (1615-1868), late 17th century
£15,000 - £18,000
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Of ovoid form with short everted neck, painted in rich enamels with a lake scene, small huts on a promontory with a moored boat and masts on the shore line, amid willow and pine trees, beneath a border of stylised clouds, and bands of blue and yellow enamel.
20.3cm (8in) high.
Footnotes
For similar jars, see Hayashiya Seizo, Nihon no toji (Ceramics of Japan), Tokyo, Chuokoronsha, 1989, vol.9, no.42; Motosuke Imaizumi, Shoki Arita to Ko-Kutani (Early Arita and Old Kutani), Tokyo, Yuzankaku, pl.85; Toguri Bijutsukan (Toguri Museum of Art), Ko-Imari: Zohinsenshu (Old Imari Ware), exhibition catalogue, Tokyo, 1991, p.81, no.137; 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, p.29, no.24; Richard S. Cleveland, 200 Years of Japanese Porcelain, exhibition catalogue, City Museum of Saint Louis and Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, 1970, p.93, no.80; and Nagatake Takeshi and Imura Yukihiko eds., Nihon no bi no bi: Kareinaru Ko-Imari: Kakiemon, Imari, Satsuma (The Beauty of Japanese Beauty: Glorious Ko-Imari: Kakiemon, Imari, Satsuma), Kyoto, Kyoto Bisho, 1980, no.32.
