Potter: Kakihan
Square section bottle. Hard-paste porcelain painted in underglaze blue with iron-red, black, aubergine, pink and green enamels and gilding. The bottle is of tapering square section, with angular shoulders, and neck domed with a flaring mouth. The base is flat and unglazed. The body is decorated with four lobed panels of birds among flowering prunus, pine trees and bamboo. Two of the panels are reserved on blue with gilt scrolling foliage, and two of the panels are reserved on an iron-red ground with pink, white and gilt flower heads. The shoulders are similarly decorated with lobed panels, two containing pine branches and two with a flower spray on a similar blue and gilt ground, and iron-red, white and gilt diaper pattern ground. The neck is decorated in underglaze blue and gilt foliage.
History note: H.S. Reitlinger (d.1950); the Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead, from which transferred in 1991.
Bequeathed by H.S. Reitlinger, 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991.
Diameter: 7.6 cm
Height: 19.0 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
Edo Period (1615-1868)#
19th Century
Circa
1800
-
1900
Japanese, Arita
Signed: With Kakihan; made by Fukagawa
Decoration
composed of
enamels
( in iron-red, black, aubergine, pink and green enamels)
gilt
Body
Accession number: C.742-1991
Primary reference Number: 21753
Old object number: CHICER/191
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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