LATE 17TH CENTURY

细节

A rare Arita polychrome teapot and cover
Late 17th Century
Enamelled in the kakiemon-style with green, aubergine, yellow, black and iron-red with touches of gilt, the lobed globular sides painted to the centre with a bird stretching out its wings and perched on stems of cherry blossom, below an iron-red ruyi-lappet border, applied with stap handle and hexagonal curved spout, the flower-shaped flat cover surmounted by a kiku finial, small glaze crack to the handle
13 cm. high

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拍品专文

Most teapots of this type and decoration are enamelled with a central bird in blue enamels, following closer the kakiemon prototype. It is rare to find a green, aubergine and yellow-glazed bird as the one in the above lot. A smaller example with a blue bird is illustrated in Nagatake Takeshi, Hizen toki no keifu (Lineage of Hizen Porcelain), Tokyo, 1974, pl. 24. A teapot decorated in underglaze-blue is illustrated in C.J.A. Jörg, Fine and Curious, Japanese Export Porcelain in Dutch Collections, Amsterdam, 2003, p. 193, fig. 240.