Two Imari bottles. Arita. Around 1700 - image-1

Lot 1106 Nα

Two Imari bottles. Arita. Around 1700

Auction 1061 - overview Cologne
05.12.2015, 11:00 - Asian Art III - Japanese Art incl. The Netsuke Collection of Kolodotschko IV
Estimate: 1.000 € - 1.500 €
Result: 3.720 € (incl. premium)

Two Imari bottles. Arita. Around 1700

Two Imari bottles of ovoid shape with a very slender neck, painted in underglaze blue, iron red, enamels and a little gold with shidare sakura, bamboo, maple branches and flower sprays. Ascending leaf decoration at the shoulder. The rim with thin gilding. Arita. Around 1700. (2)
Height 24.2 cm

Provenance

Collection Julius Rueber-Suter

Literature

Compare a very similar bottle in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, ill. in: Oliver Impey, Chinese Export Porcelain, Amsterdam 2002, no. 294