Name: AN ARITA APOTHECARY BOTTLE
Brand: EDO PERIOD (LATE 17TH CENTURY)
Price: 600.00 GBP
Availability: SoldOut

FORMERLY IN THE COLLECTION OF SOAME JENYNS, DEPUTY KEEPING OF ASIAN ANTIQUITIES, BRITISH MUSEUM (1950-1968)

An Arita Apothecary Bottle
Edo period (late 17th century)
The globular body with tapering neck ending in the double flanged rim, decorated in underglaze blue with sprays of peony and pomegranate below a band of lappets, the shoulder with flowers
24.5cm. high

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For similar examples, see:
Soame Jenyns, Japanese Porcelain (London,1965), pl. 10a.
Oliver Impey, Japanese Export Porcelain – Catalogue of The Collection of The Ashmolean Museum Oxford, (Amsterdam, 2002), p.105.
Toguri Bijutsukan [Toguri Museum of Art], Nihon toji meihin zuroku [Japanese ceramics in the Toguri collection] (Tokyo, 1988), p. 91, 296, no.129 (the 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, cf. no. 93).

Provenance:
Soame Jenyns, Deputy Keeper of Asian Antiquities, British Museum (1950-1968)