Rare Japanese Arita blue and white tureen and cover, Edo period, circa 1680

Rare Japanese Arita blue and white tureen and cover, Edo period, circa 1680, painted in a bright underglaze blue in the Chinese style with a continous scene of houses and flowering prunus in a mountainous landscape setting, the foot with a stylised geometric pattern border, the cover similarly decorated with a landscape scene and surmounted by a disc-shaped finial.

Height: 33cm. (13in.); height of base: 22.8cm. (9 in.)

For similar examples see: Barry Davies Oriental Art Ltd 'Ko-Imari Porcelain from the Collection of Oliver Impey' Exhibition Catalogue 1997; see p. 53. showing a tureen lacking the lid.

D F Lunssingh Scheurleef, 'Japons porcelein met blauwe decoraties uit tweede helft van de eerste helft van de achttiende eeuw' Nederlandse Verenig van de Ceramiek 64/65 1971 /2-3, p.105. No,163 a & b

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, from the collection of Dr. and Mrs. Roger G. Gerry Collection, Accession Number 2002.447.47a, b

Brennan Ford, Barbara and Impey, Oliver R., ‘Japanese Art from the Gerry Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art,’ plate 38. There is a pair of bowls without covers of a similar design and shape at Nostell Priory House, NT 959620.2.

Amongst the ceramics found on the Hatcher Wreck, a small covered bowl was discovered which is decorated in a similar landscape scene to the body, see Sheaf, Colin and Kilburn, Richard, ‘The Hatcher Porcelain Cargoes’, plate 102, p. 68. However, the seated shishi knop is more unusual.

Soame Jenyns collection is on view at the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge, collection no. J53.

Kyushu Ceramic Museum, The Shibata Collection (Saga-prefecture, 1991) part 2, p.178, no.516 and The Toguri Museum of Art, Ko-Imari [Old Imari ware] (Tokyo, 1991), p.124, no.267

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