Japanese Imari 1690-1800

Object 2012629

Bowl

Japan

1690-1710

Height 84 mm (3.31 inch), diameter of rim 190 mm (7.48 inch), diameter of footring 82 mm (3.23 inch), weight 572 grams (20.18 ounce (oz.))

Lobbed bowl on footring, spreading sides, lobed rim. Imari, decorated in underglaze blue, iron red, green, turquoise, yellow, gray and gold. Inside on the sides a large chrysanthemum spray, two sprays of a flowering plant and a large butterfly. In the centre a peony spray in a double concentric band. The inside sprays continue on the outside. The lower half with a foliate scroll border in underglaze blue. Round the foot a band with wavy lines in red. On the base a single concentric band.

Impey states that this bowl is unusual in that the blue-and-white decoration and the enamelled decoration are so totally separated. The enamelling is more typical of the type with no underglaze blue, both in style and in palette. (Impey 2002, p.200)

The shape of the bowl is mirrored by its decoration of a kiku-flower. Apart from the unusual, Chinese-style broad band round the foot and the Chilon (sea-dragon) in the centre, no underglaze blue was used in the decoration, allowing the enameller complete freedom. (Jörg 2003/1, p.96)

For an identically shaped, sized and decorated bowl, please see;

Fine & Curious: Japanese Export Porcelain in Dutch Collections, (C.J.A. Jörg, Hotei publishing, Amsterdam, 2003), p.96, cat. 92.

For other an identically shaped and sized and similarly decorated bowls, please see;

An identically shaped, sized and decorated bowl incised with the Johanneum mark 'N=12' and signum square is in the collection of Augustus the Strong in Dresden and registered in the inventory of the collection in 1721 under number P.O. (Porzellan Ostasien) 4792.

For this identically, shaped, sized and similarly decorated bowl, please see;

Condition: Some firing flaws and a fleabite to the rim.

References:

Oxford 1981, cat. 227

Reichel 1981, cat. 65

Impey 2002, cat. 327

Jörg 2003/1, cat. 92

Ashmolean Museum Oxford

SKD Online collection

Price: Sold.