R9038

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.

Large Japanese porcelain blue and white decagonal deep dish with indented corners, painted with a lady and her attendant on a naturalistic bridge, with a seated gentleman in a boat, the scene between prunus branches and rock work with a palm tree above a river, encircled by a ruyi-head border and beneath an upright brown dressed rim, the underside with a scrolling branch above underglaze blue lines, the base with a fuku mark within a double square, with natural spur marks. 

11 ½ inches, 29.2 cm diameter.

Genroku period, 1690-1710.

A Japanese porcelain Kakiemon polychrome deep bowl with foliate lobed upright brown dressed rim, painted on the exterior with two elaborate-tailed birds in flight between branches of bamboo, leaves and rockwork, the interior with flowering branches of plum blossom amongst rockwork, all painted in luminous tones of blue, turquoise and iron red enamels. The glazed base with a single ring in underglaze blue and a spur mark. The white fine biscuit foot rim revealing the body.

8 ½ inches, 21.5cm diameter.

1680-1700