£300 - £500
A PAIR OF LARGE JAPANESE IMARI PORCELAIN CHARGERS
CIRCA 1690, ARITA KILNS
伊万里彩瓷 约1690年
heightened in polychrome including green, aubergine and black enamel, each painted in the centre with iron-red, gilt and underglaze blue with a vase of peony and prunus between birds perched on branches looking in at each other, the elaborate border with shaped reserves of peony flower heads and buds between open-winged butterflies with chrysanthemum, leaves and stylised clouds, the undersides with branches of prunus, the bases with the original spur marks
54.5cm diameter
PROVENANCE: From a private French collection
NOTE: A related dish is illustrated by John Ayers in Chinese and Japanese Works of Art in The Collection of Her Majesty the Queen, Volume 2, no. 1716, pp. 702/3.
Marchant: ‘Moving to Brook Street’
To be offered without reserve
迁址启新|Marchant布鲁克街迁址专场拍卖 (悉数无底价)
one excellent, one restored.
Fees apply to the hammer price:
Room and Absentee Bids:
30% inc VAT*
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33.6% inc VAT*