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A Japanese Arita ware jar, Kakiemon style, Edo period, ca 1670-90.

Estimate
4 000 - 6 000 SEK
349 - 523 EUR
365 - 547 USD
Hammer price
82 000 SEK
Purchasing info
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Cecilia Nordström
Stockholm
Cecilia Nordström
Head Specialist Asian Ceramics and Works of Art, European Ceramics and Glass
+46 (0)739 40 08 02
A Japanese Arita ware jar, Kakiemon style, Edo period, ca 1670-90.

Painted in polychrome enamels on clear glaze with three large panels of figures with a fan and parasol and a long tailed bird in a garden of blossoming plum and bamboo amongst Chinese-style rocks. Height 30,5 cm.

Repaired.

Literature

John Ayers, Far Eastern Ceramics in the Victoria & Albert Museum, pl 260. Soame Jenyns, Japanese Porcelain, no 57b. John Ayers et al, Porcelain for the Palaces, The Fashion for Japan in Europe 1650-1750, pl 138.

More information

This jar was made in Arita for export to Europe and was probably commissioned by the Dutch East India Company.