Name: AN ARITA APOTHECARY BOTTLE
Brand: EDO PERIOD (LATE 17TH CENTURY)
Price: 950.00 GBP
Availability: SoldOut

An Arita Apothecary Bottle
Edo period (late 17th century)
The globular body decorated in underglaze blue with four birds perched on flowering peony branches and in flight, below the neck encircled with a leaf pattern and ending in the double flanged rim, the base inscribed with the initials I.C (Johannes Camphuys) within a laurel wreath
25cm. high

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The initials I.C. are probably those of Johannes Camphuys (1634-1695), who was born in Haarlem and joined the Dutch East India Company at the age of twenty. After occupying a number of minor positions, he was placed in charge of the Company's operations in Deshima in 1671. In 1684 he was elected Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies and was stationed in Batavia.

For similar examples, see:
Soame Jenyns, Japanese Porcelain (London,1965), pl.10a.
[Japanese ceramics in the Toguri collection] (Tokyo, 1988), p. 91, 296, no.129. (Toguri Museum of Art)
Kurita Hideo, Kurita bijutsukan zo Imari dai-isshu [First series of Imari in Kurita Museum], (Japan, 1991), p.108, pl.93.
http://www.kurita.or.jp/imari/catalog/index.htm (Kurita Museum, ref. no. 93).
Christiaan J.A. Jorg, Fine and Curious, Japanese Export Porcelain in Dutch Collections, (Amsterdam, 2003), p.219, no.273.