M5485
£6,850
Description
Japanese porcelain kakiemon lobed and fluted teapot and cover, the ten fluted sides painted with branches of flowering plants in iron-red with lapis blue enamel branches and leaves, heightened with turquoise rock work and further leaves, beneath stylised clouds and with a ruyi–band on the shoulder in iron red, the handle and spout with turquoise scrolls, the cover similarly decorated beneath a pierced bud finial.
5 2/4 inches, 14.6 cm handle to spout.
1680-1700.
Provenance & Additional Information
- From a private French collection.
- Sold by Galerie Duval, Brussels, 22nd March 1944.
- An identical teapot and cover in the Victoria and Albert Museum, gift of J.H. Fitzhenry collection no. C.413&A-1909 is illustrated by John Ayers, Oliver Impey and J.V.G. Mallet in Porcelain for Palaces: The Fashion for Japan in Europe, 1650-1750, 1990, no. 103, p. 142; another of this form decorated with a bird and scrolling foliage was included by Marchant in their Recent Acquisitions brochure, 2000, no. 33, p. 13.
Condition
Spout end nibble restored.