Nette Megens
Head of Department, Director
Lot 165
An Imari bowl and cover, Edo period (1615-1886), circa 1700
1 December 2025, 13:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street£1,000 - £1,500
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An Imari bowl and cover, Edo period (1615-1886), circa 1700
The deep cup-shaped bowl on tall foot, the domed cover with narrow raised band, painted with two halfs of a kiku in iron-red green enamels and underglaze-blue flower motifs, picked out in gilding, 15cm high (2)
Footnotes
Provenance
With Christophe Perlès, 2018
Literature
White, Mary, Eating at the Whites' House, Vol.3, 2022, p.65
Another example of this pattern on two similar if squatter bowls can be found on the Weld family Surtout de Table in the Hofsilberkammer (Royal silver collections) in Vienna, published by J. Ayres, O. Impey and J.V.G. Mallet, Porcelain for Palaces, 1990, p.229, no.246. The pattern occurs often on Japanese porcelain, see another covered bowl, again of the same shape as the silver-mounted surtout mentioned above, in C.J.A. Jörg, Fine and Curious, Japanese Export Porcelain in Dutch Private Collections, 2003, p.111, no.115. Jörg suggests the chrysanthemum or kiku-flower motif likely derives from embroidered textiles. The pattern was also copied in Chinese ceramics.