Nette Megens
Head of Department, Director
Lot 166
An Arita tea or coffee urn and cover, Edo period (1615-1868), circa 1730-50
1 December 2025, 13:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street£2,000 - £3,000
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An Arita tea or coffee urn and cover, Edo period (1615-1868), circa 1730-50
Moulded and painted in Imari palette with cranes, birds, foliage and clouds, the neck with moulded gadrooned border under an iron-red band with brown scrollwork, on three figural or bijin feet, applied with a metal spigot and tap, the cover with underglaze-blue bands and an iron-red border with brown scrollwork, applied with a moulded finial, 39cm high (2)
Footnotes
Provenance
With Robert McPherson Antiques, 2014
Literature
Krahl, R., China Without Dragons: Rare Pieces from Oriental Ceramic Society Members, 2016, pp.322-23
White, Mary, Drinking at the Whites' House, Vol.2, 2021, pp.240-241, fig.b
Exhibited
Oriental Ceramic Society, China Without Dragons: Rare Pieces from Oriental Ceramic Society Members, 2016, no.192
Other examples of this shape can be found in museums around the world, including the British Museum (inv. no.Franks.493.A) and Museum Het Princessehof in Leeuwarden, and the Groninger Museum, as illustrated by C.J.A. Jörg, Fine and Curious, Japanese Export Porcelain in Dutch Collections, 2003, p.207, no.266.