EDO PERIOD (LATE 17TH CENTURY)

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

Price Realised GBP 750

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GBP 700 - GBP 1,000

Closed: 7 Jul 2016

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AN ARITA APOTHECARY BOTTLE

EDO PERIOD (LATE 17TH CENTURY)

Price Realised GBP 750

Closed: 7 Jul 2016

Price Realised GBP 750

Closed: 7 Jul 2016

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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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Lot Essay

For similar examples, see:
Soame Jenyns, (London,1965), pl. 10a.
Oliver Impey, , (Amsterdam, 2002), p.105.
Toguri Bijutsukan [Toguri Museum of Art], [Japanese ceramics in the Toguri collection] (Tokyo, 1988), p. 91, 296, no.129 (the Toguri Museum of Art)
Kurita Hideo, [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).

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