A cup and five saucers. Arita. Late 18th century - image-1

Lot 18 Dα

A cup and five saucers. Arita. Late 18th century

Auction 1136 - overview Cologne
07.06.2019, 11:00 - Japanese Art (Decorative Arts, Paintings, Woodcut Prints)
Estimate: 600 € - 800 €
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A cup and five saucers. Arita. Late 18th century

Painted in enamels and iron-red with a Dutchman and a boy servant underneath a tree, the reverse of the saucers with bamboo branches in iron-red. At the base an apocryphal six-character Qianlong seal mark. One saucer with a crack, others with a rubbed glaze. (6)
Height of the cup 8.3 cm; diameter of the saucers 13.3 cm

Painted in enamels and iron-red with a Dutchman and a boy servant underneath a tree, the reverse of the saucers with bamboo branches in iron-red. At the base apocryphal six-character seal mark Qianlong. One saucer with a crack, others with a rubbed glaze. (6)

Literature

Compare similar saucers and cup illustrated in: Shibata Collection Part IV: The Establishment and Transformation of the Ko-Imari Style / Shibata Korekushon IV: Ko Imari Yoshiki no Seiritsu to Tenkai, Kyushu Ceramic Museum, 1995, p. 169 no. 330 and 331