STYLE: Furniture, Silver, Ceramics
STYLE: Furniture, Silver, Ceramics
Property from the Collection of Henry H. Arnhold, sold to benefit The Arnhold Foundation
A JAPANESE KENJO IMARI BASIN, EDO PERIOD, 1700-30
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October 21, 03:08 PM GMT
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1,500 - 2,000 USD
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Property from the Collection of Henry H. Arnhold, sold to benefit The Arnhold Foundation
A JAPANESE KENJO IMARI BASIN, EDO PERIOD, 1700-30
the center painted with a brocade of flowers, the cavetto decorated with four shaped panels reserved with stylized chrysanthemums, the base with an apocryphal Dai min seika nensei mark within a double-circle
diameter 11⅛ in.
28.3 cm
S. Marchant & Son, London, April 1998
Maureen Cassidy-Geiger, The Arnhold Collection of Meissen Porcelain, 1710-50, New York 2008, no. 375, p. 713, illus.
Kenjo Imari, according to Christiaan Jörg's commentary in Cassidy-Geiger, 2008, p. 713, refers to a specific type of Imari that is highly decorated and meant for domestic consumption. Kenjo, meaning 'for presentation', were presented special occasions. Jörg further notes that there are several examples in the Dresden collection, such as a pair of bottle vases illustrated in Eva Stöber, "La maladie de porcelain"... Ostasiatisches Porzellan aus der Sammlung Augusts des Starken, Berlin, 2001, cat. no. 85.