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A pair of Arita porcelain cats

Price On Request ### **A pair of Arita porcelain cats****Circa 1700, Japan****Height: 27 cm, 5 inches**Enamelled in the Imari palette, each cat is formed as the same model - rather than being mirror images of one another. Their bodies, faces and ears are decorated in overglaze patches of iron-red and dark aubergine, and their collars are gold over pink (where the gold is worn); the long tails curl around their haunches and are tipped with iron-red. Their right front paws are raised as though washing - a traditional pose of the manekineko or 'inviting cat' that is believed to bring good fortune. At the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth century, pairs of porcelain animals - particularly cats, tigers, deer and dogs - along with birds were particularly popular export wares from Japan.**Similar Examples**_La Maladie de Porcelain: East Asian Porcelain from the Collection of Augustus the Strong_, Eva Strober, Edition Leipzig, 2001: pages 208 & 209 describe and illustrate two dogs of about the same date and size, and with similar decoration.

A pair of Arita porcelain leaping carp

Price On Request ### **A pair of Arita porcelain leaping carp****Circa 1700, Japan****Height: 31 cm, 12.2 inches**Each vertical leaping fish is placed on a square base to which it is attached. The carp are modelled with mouths wide open and flashing tails, painted with blue, red and pink enamels, the latter with a slight lustre.The carp is a symbol of...

A blue and white porcelain eagle

Price On Request ### **A blue and white porcelain eagle****18th century, Japan****Height: 45 cm, 17.7 inches**The bird of prey is depicted perched leaning to its right on a well chiselled rockwork base that has been left in the biscuit thereby contrasting with the bird decorated in under glaze blue. Boldly and naturalistically modelled the eagle rests with head held up...

An unusual Imari porcelain figure of a recumbent elephant

Price On Request ### **An unusual Imari porcelain figure of a recumbent elephant****Circa 1700, Japan****Height: 4.4 cm, 1.75 inches****Length: 9.5 cm, 3.75 inches**Lying down, its trunk resting across one leg. The saddlecloth decorated with kakakusa scrolls in ochre against a green and black background with iron red flowers.

A large Imari baluster vase and cover

Price On Request ### **A large Imari baluster vase and cover****early 18th century, Japan****Height: 89 cm, 35 inches**The main body of the vase is decorated with a vertical waving line creating six panels each painted alternately with a single flowering tree or plant (peony, iris and plum), followed by a repeating design of chrysanthemum flowers and leaves with scrolling stems,...

An Imari porcelain gourde vase

Price On Request ### **An Imari porcelain gourde vase****18th century, Japan****Height: 30 cm, 11.8 inches**The octagonal gourde shaped vase includes some raised moulded flower heads, the decoration consisting of chrysanthemum flowers and leaves painted in over glaze blue and green with over glaze red and large areas in gilt.

A large Imari porcelain bowl and cover.

Price On Request ### **A large Imari porcelain bowl and cover.****Early 18th century, Japan****Height: 49cm, 19.3 inches**The deep round bowl is supported on a low circular foot; the domed cover rises to an octagonal finial on a chrysanthemum flower base, both parts quite thickly potted for strength. The decoration in the main field of both parts is similar, with three...

An Imari jardinière

Price On Request ### **An Imari jardinière****18th century, Japan****Height: 19cm, 7.5 inches****Height with cover 22cm, 8.7 inches**The square jardinière has canted corners and moulded elements forming part of the decoration. Each of the four sides has the same design containing four scenes within cloud like shapes juxtaposed by a raised textile design of repeated flower heads. The clouds each depict...

A Kakiemon porcelain vase with ormolu mounts

Price On Request ### **A Kakiemon porcelain vase with ormolu mounts****Vase: late 17th century, Japan, mounts: signed Escalier de Cristal Paris, 19th century, France****Height: 26cm, 10.3 inches**The square shaped tapering vase would originally have had two flaring sides linked by a handle creating a bucket form, the handles are now missing and the vase mounted in ormolu as a pot...

A pair of Toguri Imari porcelain vases

Price On Request ### **A pair of Toguri Imari porcelain vases****Early 18th century, Japan****Height: 23 cm, 9.1 inches**The square shaped vases taper towards the base, the shoulders slope gently on four sides to a short round neck. The decoration on all four panels similarly depict chrysanthemums and leaves painted in under glaze blue with over glaze red and traces of...

A pair of Imari porcelain vases

Price On Request ### **A pair of Imari porcelain vases****18th century, Japan****Height: 33cm, 13 inches**The elongated baluster form has a heavy foot rim, short neck and slightly flaring mouth. Each vase is decorated in similar fashion with three vertical panels containing a flowering branch amongst which is peony, chrysanthemum and plum, below the three smaller mixed sprigs of the same...

A pair of small Imari bottles,

Price On Request ### **A pair of small Imari bottles,****18th century, Japan****Height: 22.5cm, 8.9 inches**The bodies of pear shape with long thin necks and standing on circular feet, each decorated with three panels containing a repeated design of the three friends of winter, Bamboo, pine and plum, amongst rockwork. Each panel outlined in under glaze blue with gilt decoration over...

A pair of Imari porcelain deep bowls and covers

Price On Request ### **A pair of Imari porcelain deep bowls and covers****Early 18th century, Japan****Height: 32 cm, 12.6 inches****Diameter: 32 cm, 12.6 inches**Each with deep rounded sides and a low domed cover with flattened knob. The decoration is similarly arranged on both the bowls and the covers, with four rectangular panels each painted with flowers or trees in an...

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