LARGE JAPANESE ARITA BALUSTER JAR EDO PERIOD, LATE 17TH CENT...

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LARGE JAPANESE ARITA BALUSTER JAR
EDO PERIOD, LATE 17TH CENTURY
painted in the Kakiemon palette with a figurative scene depicting the Chinese tale of the Tang poet Li Bo, who made the eunuch Gao Lischi remove his boot in the Imperial presence
42cm high

PROVENANCE: Private London collection

Sotheby’s Fine Japanese Art, 6 November 1918

Guest & Gray, London

NOTE: A similar example is illustrated in Soame Jenyns, Japanese Porcelain (London 1958) Pl. 117a, formerly in the collection of Richard de la Mare.