AN EARLY-ENAMELLED SMALL JAR Edo period (1615-1868), mid-/late 17th century
AN EARLY-ENAMELLED SMALL JAR
Edo period (1615-1868), mid-/late 17th century
Decorated in iron-red, green, blue and black enamels and underglaze-blue in Kakiemon-style with a continuous dense design of three stylised birds among flowers and foliage, the shoulder encircled with a band of shippo-tsunagi (linked-cash), the neck and foot with a band of geometric patterns; with an unrelated lacquer cover. 17cm (6¾in) high. (2).
For a very similar jar in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, fitted with a Dutch silver-gilt mount, see John Ayers et al., Porcelain for Palaces: Fashion for Japan in Europe, 1650-1750, London, Oriental Ceramic Society, 1990, p.122, pl.80.
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AN EARLY-ENAMELLED SMALL JAR
Edo period (1615-1868), mid-/late 17th century
Decorated in iron-red, green, blue and black enamels and underglaze-blue in Kakiemon-style with a continuous dense design of three stylised birds among flowers and foliage, the shoulder encircled with a band of shippo-tsunagi (linked-cash), the neck and foot with a band of geometric patterns; with an unrelated lacquer cover. 17cm (6¾in) high. (2).
For a very similar jar in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, fitted with a Dutch silver-gilt mount, see John Ayers et al., Porcelain for Palaces: Fashion for Japan in Europe, 1650-1750, London, Oriental Ceramic Society, 1990, p.122, pl.80.
