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Object 2011069

Ewer / jug

Japan

c.1670-1690

Height 277 mm (10.91 inch), height (without cover) 268 mm (10.55 inch), diameter 145 mm (5.71 inch), diameter of mouthrim 50 mm (1.97 inch) x 45 mm (1.77 inch), diameter of footring 90 mm (3.54 inch), weight 1,180 grams (41,62 ounce (oz.))

Oviform ewer / jug on footring, cylindrical neck, cup-shaped mouth with pinched spout. Curved handle. Mounted with an 18th-19th century (?) gilt-bronze (ormolu) mount (unmarked). Decorated in underglaze blue with three shaped panels reserved on a ground of karakusa scrolls. In each panel figures, houses, flowering plants and birds. On the neck flower scrolls and a peony, round the mouth a ruyi-border. The handle with a karakusa scroll.

The shape of this ewer / jug derived from a European stoneware model. The piercing on the handles of this and similar shapes is original, and was intended for the silver or other metal mount that would customarily have been added in Europe. (Impey 2002 )

These tall long-necked jugs with landscapes in three panels separated by Mohammedan scrolls on their bodies, floral ornament on their neck and ju-i motifs, round their lips, are reminiscent of 16th- and 17th-century Ming Porcelain in decoration and probably date from 1674-1684. Some smaller jugs are similarly decorated with flowers, landscapes or figures in panels. (Lunsingh Scheurleer 1971)

For identically shaped and decorated ewers, please see:

Condition: A restored (re-stuck) handle.

References:

Lunsingh Scheurleer 1971, p.75, cat. 71a, 71b & 72.

Lunsingh Scheurleer 1980, p.379, cat. 394. p.444, cat. 518 & p.445, cat 521.

Jörg 1982/2, pp.76-77, cat. 115.

Daendels 1981, p.67, cat. 94.

Reichel 1981, cat. 10

Kassel 1990, cat. 230

Kyushu 1991, cat. 532

Impey 2002, p.54, cat. 33.

Jörg 2003/1, p.162, cat. 183.

Kyushu 2001), cat. 421

Kyushu 2003, cat. 1541 & 1817

Price: Sold.