Pottery and Porcelain

"Jar with design of flowers and birds in overglaze enamels, Imari ware"


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Height: 37.5 Diameter(mouth, body, foot): 16.4, 30.5, 14.5
Edo period

This jar widens at the shoulder and flares out slightly at the neck, and the foot is shaped to suggest jointed bamboo. On the body are three window-like medallions, each of which contain chrysanthemums, peonies and long-tailed cocks. Filling the spaces between the medallions and also covering the shoulder is a design of flower arabesques. Vessels of this shape and decorated with this type of motif are called "jinko-ko" and were exported to Europe in great numbers during the 17th and 18th centuries. It must have been covered.


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