Ref: Y970
Archive item - not for sale
Japanese polychrome circular salt, c. 1700, with a concave well and domed base supported on three ball feet, the base decorated with lotus-petal shaped panels enclosing branches of flowers, the upper body with sprays of prunus, with gilt and red borders of chevron (higaki pattern), scrollwork (karakusa) and flowerheads, height: 2 3/4in., 7cm; condition: slight wear to gilding. A similar salt can be found in the V&A Museum Collection, museum number: FE.74-1970 and is illustrated in Ayers, Impey & Mallet, 'Porcelain for Palaces' (1990), p. 206, pl. 202. An example from the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford is illustrated in C.J.A. Jörg, Oliver Impey, Japanese export porcelain, Catalogue of the collection of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, (Amsterdam, 2002), p. 193, no. 308. SOLD
