A fine Kakiemon jar


Edo period (1615-1868), late 17th centuryOf ovoid form with short everted neck, painted in rich enamels with a lake scene, small huts on a promontory with a moored boat and masts on the shore line, amid willow and pine trees, beneath a border of stylised clouds, and bands of blue and yellow enamel. 20.3cm (8in) high.
|For similar jars, see Hayashiya Seizo, Nihon no toji (Ceramics of Japan), Tokyo, Chuokoronsha, 1989, vol.9, no.42; Motosuke Imaizumi, Shoki Arita to Ko-Kutani (Early Arita and Old Kutani), Tokyo, Yuzankaku, pl.85; Toguri Bijutsukan (Toguri Museum of Art), Ko-Imari: Zohinsenshu (Old Imari Ware), exhibition catalogue, Tokyo, 1991, p.81, no.137; Asahi Shinbunsha Seibu Honsha Kikakubu, Kakiemon no sekai: Genryu kara gendai made (The World of Kakiemon from Its Origins to the Present), Fukuoka, Asahi Shinbunsha Seibu Honsha Kikakubu, 1983, p.29, no.24; Richard S. Cleveland, 200 Years of Japanese Porcelain, exhibition catalogue, City Museum of Saint Louis and Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, 1970, p.93, no.80; and Nagatake Takeshi and Imura Yukihiko eds., Nihon no bi no bi: Kareinaru Ko-Imari: Kakiemon, Imari, Satsuma (The Beauty of Japanese Beauty: Glorious Ko-Imari: Kakiemon, Imari, Satsuma), Kyoto, Kyoto Bisho, 1980, no.32.