Name: A RARE ELEGANTLY MOUNTED IMARI COFFEE POT AND COVER
Brand: EDO PERIOD (LATE 17TH - EARLY 18TH CENTURY); THE MOUNT, 18TH CENTURY, GERMAN
Price: 17000.00 GBP
Availability: SoldOut

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A Rare Elegantly Mounted Imari Coffee Pot and Cover
Edo period (late 17th - early 18th century); the mount, 18th century, German
The octagonal tapering body with curved pierced handle for mounting, decorated in iron-red, green, brown-red and black enamels, pink wash and gilt on underglaze blue, the double-structure upper part open-worked and decorated with stylised flowerheads and foliage, above the lappets with cherry flowerheads, the domed cover similarly decorated; fitted with gilt-metal German mounts of tap modelled as a mythical dolphin, the tripod base with dolphins, the finial modelled as a Neptune's horse and further decoration to the rims and handle
27cm. high (without mounts)

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For a similar example, see The Kyusyu Ceramic Museum, The Voyage of Old-Imari Porcelains, exhibition catalogue, (Arita, 2000).

This model was copied by the Samson factory, Paris, in the 19th century. A Samson example in the collection of Groninger Museum is published together with this lot in Christiaan J.A. Jorg, Fine and Curious, Japanese Export Porcelain in Dutch Collections, (Amsterdam, 2003), p.206.

Similar coffee pots with German gilt mounts were sold Christie’s London, 20 March 1991, lot 216 and New York, 18 September 2002, Lot 323.
For another example with gilt-bronze mounts see Lunsingh Scheurleer, D. F., Chinesiches und Japanisches Porzellan in Europaischen Fasssungen (Braunschweig: Kinkhardt and Biermann, 1980), pls. 429 a, b and c.

Exhibited:
Groninger Museum, the Netherlands

Published:
Christiaan J.A. Jorg, Fine and Curious, Japanese Export Porcelain in Dutch Collections, (Amsterdam, 2003), p.206, no. 265.