Antique Chinese & Japanese PorcelainEuropean Ceramics & Works of Art
Chinese blue and white circular salt of a drum shape Kangxi(1662-1722) on three paw feet, the sides decorated with panels of flowers
Dimensions:
Height: 6.9 cm. (2 5/8in.), diameter of base: 8cm. (3 1/8in.),
Condition:
Good
Notes:
For an example of the same shape but with different decoration see Volker and Brill (Leiden 1971) 'Porcelain and the Dutch East India Company', no.23. These salts are recorded as fine Kangxi, after 1683. The Japanese copied this shape at Arita circa 1700 (see Jörg 2003. p.164). There are examples of Japanese Arita salts in this style in the collection of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, and in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (museum number V&A FE.75-1970). Also see Ayers (1990) 'Illustrated Porcelain for Palaces'p.206, pl.202, for further comparable examples of Japanese salts made in the Chinese Kangxi style. (see Jörg 'Famille Verte: Chinese Porcelain in Green Enamels' (2011) p.148).
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