Name: TWO SMALL KAKIEMON TEA BOWLS AND SAUCERS
Brand: EDO PERIOD (LATE 17TH CENTURY)
Price: 2000.00 GBP
Availability: SoldOut

Two Small Kakiemon Tea Bowls and Saucers
Edo period (late 17th century)
The first foliate-rimmed saucer decorated in iron-red, blue, green, yellow and black enamels with symmetrical sprays of chrysanthemums, the matching tea bowl similarly decorated with chrysanthemums and two birds

The second foliate-rimmed saucer decorated in iron-red, blue, green, yellow and black enamels with chrysanthemums issuing from rockwork, the matching tea bowl similarly decorated with chrysanthemum, kikyo [Chinese bellflowers] and two birds
Saucers 10.8cm. and 11.1cm.diam.; tea bowls 6.5cm. diam.

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For a similar example of the second tea bowl and saucer in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, see:
John Ayers, Oliver Impey, et al., Porcelain for Palaces: The Fashion for Japan in Europe 1650-1750, (London, 1990), p.143, no.106.
Oliver Impey, Japanese Export Porcelain – Catalogue of The Collection of The Ashmolean Museum Oxford, (Amsterdam, 2002), p.84, no. 77.