A Faceted Kakiemon Jar, 17th century

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Description

20.3cm., 8in.

decorated in iron-red, blue, turquoise and green enamels with a pair of ho-o flying above peonies and rocks, the sloping shoulder with cherry blossoms reserved on karakusa, the short neck with a band of geometric motifs

Catalogue Note

Other similar jars are illustrated, Hayashiya Seizo, Nihon no Toji, Vol. 9, Kakiemon, pl.88, Toguri Museum of Art, Old Imari Ware, p.93, pl.190 and another in Victor Rienaecker, The Richard de la Mare Collection of Japanese Ceramic Wares, Part 1, Fig.V, Apollo, November 1946