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Japanese Blue and White Arita Tankard, Circa 1680

U547 Japanese blue and white Arita tankard, circa 1680
U547 Japanese blue and white Arita tankard, circa 1680
U547 Japanese blue and white Arita tankard, circa 1680
U547 Japanese blue and white Arita tankard, circa 1680
U547 Japanese blue and white Arita tankard, circa 1680
U547 Japanese blue and white Arita tankard, circa 1680
U547 Japanese blue and white Arita tankard, circa 1680
U547 Japanese blue and white Arita tankard, circa 1680
U547 Japanese blue and white Arita tankard, circa 1680
U547 Japanese blue and white Arita tankard, circa 1680
Ref: U547
£ 2,200
Price is subject to availability and market conditions.

Japanese blue and white Arita tankard, circa 1680, the bulbous body decorated in bright underglaze blue with three shaped panels containing three landscape scenes; birds perching and in flight around a cliffy rockface, a mountainous landscape with an elderly man holding a parasol and fan, with his young companion and a small dog; and a lakeside scene with waterfowl and grasses; all set against a ground with dense karakusa scroll and lotus heads below a single blue line to the rim, the attached strap handle decorated with further karakusa scroll.


Dimensions:

Height: 23.5cm. (9 1/4in.)


Condition:

Hole inserted for metal lid at time of manufacture.


Notes:

A similar example from the Somae Jenyns Collection can be found at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (J111); another similar example with European silver mounts from the collection of Percival V. David can be found at the Victoria and Albert Museum (no. C.417-1918). See also, Impey, ‘Japanese Export Porcelain: Catalogue of the Collection of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford’, p.54, no.34.

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