Nette Megens
Head of Department, Director
Lot 124
An Arita ewer, Edo period (1615-1868), circa 1700
1 December 2025, 13:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street£800 - £1,200
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An Arita ewer, Edo period (1615-1868), circa 1700
Painted in the Kakiemon palette, the shouldered ovoid form with a bulbous and waisted neck, above an everted foot, the sides with moulded scale panels painted with scattered flowerheads between blue karakusa scrollwork borders with iron-red flower heads, the shoulder with four stylised kiri blossoms (paulownia blossoms), s-shaped spout and loop handle, 16cm high
Footnotes
Provenance
With Christophe Perlès, 2021
Another example of this shape with a slightly different decoration but same moulding is in the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, and is registered in the inventory of the Japanese Palace in Dresden from 1721 when there is mention of 'N. 45. Zwey Caffé Kannen mit kurzen und etwas überschlagenen Hälsen, Henckeln und Schnauzen, dann erhabenen Zierathen, auf welchen gemahlte Pagoden, 7½ Z. hoch und 4 Z. indiam.' [N. 45. Two coffee pots with short, slightly everted necks, handles, spouts and moulded ornament upon which pagods are painted, 7½ in. high and 4 in. in diam.], published in Ströber, La Maladie de Porcelaine, 2001, no.83, p.184f. Ströber refers to another ewer is in the Reitliner Collection of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (inv. no.EA1978.638, published in Eastern Ceramics and Other Works of Art from the Collection of Gerald Reitlinger, 1981, no.196).