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1348(73725)
A Japanese Arita ware jar, Kakiemon style, Edo period, ca 1670-90.
Hammer price
82 000SEK
Estimate
4 000 - 6 000 SEK

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.

For condition report contact specialist
Cecilia Nordström
Stockholm
Cecilia Nordström
Senior specialist Asian Ceramics and Works of Art, European Ceramics and Glass
+46 (0)739 40 08 02
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