,

Two Kakiemon Blue And White Square Section Bottles

c.1680 – 1710
Porcelain, underglaze blue
Kakiemon kilns, Japan
Large: H: 14cm W: 8cm
Small: H:13.5cm W: 7cm.

Provenance:
• Old English Collection. (Large)

SKU: 5465,4858. Categories: ,

Each square bottle with four straight sides rising up from a square sectionedat foot, with rounded shoulders and two of the larger bottles topped with a different metal lid, all exhibit the same design decorated in underglaze cobalt blue. On one side a man walks in a landscape scene balancing on his shoulders a yoke with two buckets of salt attached. On another side two women in a garden scene holding fans as birds fly above. One side displays a flower spray rising high above a double-gourd, which depicts a woman holding a fan, while the last side is decorated with a flowering peony tree sprouting from a rock next to a pond.