Maker: Sakaida Kakiemon XIV
Water ewer and stopper made from hard paste porcelain, thrown and moudled, and painted overglaze in blue, bluish-green, red, yellowish-brown, and black enamels in Kakiemon style.
The ewer stands on a footring. It has a globular body with facetted sides, a tall cylindrical neck with projecting rim, a tall slightly curved spout, and an S-shaped handle with an upper dragon's head terminal. One side of the body is decorated with a large rock with branches of flowers and foliage on each side of it. The other side has a smaller rock and one branch of flowers and foliage on the right and two sprigs on the left.
The domed stopper is striped in red and has reversed gadrooning radiating from a pierced ball finial, the top of which is also red.
The base has 'Kakiemon' in running script, in undeglaze in blue.
On loan from Sir John Boyd
Height: 22.2 cm
Width: 15.8 cm
Method of acquisition: Loan (2000) by Boyd, John, Sir
Overglaze
Moulding
Facetting
Thrown
Enamelling
Accession number: AAL.2 & A-2000
Primary reference Number: 140071
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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