Price On Request ### **A pair of imari porcelain roosters****18th century, Edo period, Japan****Height: 26cm 10.24 inches**Each rooster sits with beak open and tail feathers erect on a hollow base modelled as a rock or tree trunk overgrown with modelled fungus and plants. The heads of the birds are mainly in shades of red with gilt beaks and black dotted...

Price On Request ### **A pair of Kakiemon porcelain Oshidori (Mandarin ducks)****Edo period, 1670-1690, Japan****Height: 15.8 cm, 6.2 inches**Each bird is naturally modelled swimming forward with long crest, upturned wings and open beak. A pair of webbed feet are partly seen and kicked back providing the feeling of forward motion. The head is predominantly coloured in iron red with pale...

Price On Request ### **A pair of Imari porcelain Mandarin ducks****Edo period late 17th / early 18th century, Japan****Length: 28cm, 11.02 inches**Each bird is modelled swimming forwards with open bill, feathers closed around the body with the exception of a group which rise like a fin in the middle of the back and below the raised tail feathers. Two webbed...

Price On Request ### **A rare blue and white Arita porcelain carp wall vase****Late 17th century, Japan****L14 x W9 x H31 cm****L5.51 x W3.54 x H12.2 inches**The carp leaps upwards, the tail enveloped by swirls of water, the head breaking through a strong downward current. The fish is modelled with open mouth, the body decorated with scales all coloured with...

Price On Request ### **An export Imari porcelain spirit keg****First half of the 18th century, Japan****Height: 36.5 cm, 14.37 inches**The spirit keg is modelled as a drunk and cheerful open mouthed Dutch Man sitting astride a barrel, holding a bottle in his raised left hand and a glass in the other. The barrel is decorated on the front with a...

Price On Request ### **A set of three Imari porcelain vases****Edo Period, 18th century, Japan****Height: approx. 58 cm, 22.8 inches****Diameter: 20 cm, 7.9 inches**This set of three vases forms a garniture de cheminée, (an uneven number set of three, five and seven vases decorated en suite), and designed for the export market. They were usually placed on top of chimney...

Price On Request ### **A large Imari porcelain vase and cover****Edo period, late 17th - early 18th century, Japan****Height: 66 cm, 26 inches****Diameter: 50 cm, 20 inches**A high shouldered baluster jar with domed cover and gilt knob. The body is richly decorated in the Imari palette with an underglaze blue ground and over glaze enamels in red, green, yellow and...

Price On Request ### **An Arita porcelain vase and cover, probably from the Kakiemon kilns****Late 17th century, Japan****Height (incl cover): 33.5 cm, 13.2 inches****Diameter: 22 cm, 8.7 inches**The baluster shaped vase, decorated in underglaze blue, with iron-red, green, yellow, blue and black over glaze enamels in the Kakiemon palette, painted with a ho-o bird perched in the branch of a...

Price On Request ### **An Arita underglaze blue and white porcelain covered bowl****Edo Period, circa 1670 AD, Japan****Height (incl cover): 34 cm, 13.4 inches****Diameter: 31 cm, 12.2 inches**The bowl with steep sides rising from a raised foot rim, the cover of domed form surmounted by a finial modelled as a seated shishi. Decorated in various shades of underglaze blue in...

Price On Request ### **A ko-Kutani vase, Arita ware****Second half of the 17th century, Japan****Height: 36.9 cm, 14.53 inches; Diameter: 18 cm, 7.09 inches**Of elongated pear shape, with tall slightly everted neck ending in a ringed mouth, standing on a circular low foot. The vase is painted all over with a netting design in iron red with gilt details on...

Price On Request ### **A pair of Imari chargers depicting eagles****Circa 1700, Japan.****Diameter: 49 cm, 19.29 inches.**The shallow charger is potted with a broad rim, the centre painted with two eagles; one perched on the branch of a flowering tree, the other attacking a passing bird in flight. The rim is decorated with a background design of scrolls and leaves...

Price On Request ### **Japanese Arita Porcelain Vase****17th century, Japan****Height: 56 cm, 22.05 inches****Diameter: 33 cm, 12.99 inches**This long necked bottle with everted mouth rim has a bulbous body seated on a short circular foot with the porcelain on the inside of the base glased. The main decoration is contained within a wide band around the body depicting a continuous...