A KAKIEMON MODEL OF A TIGER EDO PERIOD, LATE 17TH CENTURY

Tigers, not native to Japan, were seen in travelling menageries.

A similar pair from the China Summer Palace, Drottningholm, belonging to the King of Sweden is illustrated in Soame Jenyns, Kakiemon Wares, Transactions of the Oriental Ceramics Society, vol. 15 (1937-1938), pl. 10a

John Ayers, Oliver Impey et al., Porcelain for Palaces: The Fashion for Japan in Europe 1650-1750 (London, 1990), pl. 168

Nishida Hiroko and Ohashi Koji, Kakiemon ten: Yoroppa ni kaikashita iroe jiki (Fukuoka, 1993), p. 106, no. 64

For another example in the Kurita Museum see Kurita Hideo, Imari (Ashikaga, 1975), p. 8