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Click here to subscribeA JAPANESE IMARI BOWL EDO PERIOD, C.1700 Typically decorated in underglaze blue, gilt, red and pink enamels, the well with pavilions in a river landscape, and the cavetto with flowering sprays of chrysanthemum; with shaped panels enclosing further blooms to the exterior, a paper label reading 'Christie's 10. Dec. 1998, lot 484', 24.6cm. Provenance: from a British private collection, formed 1970-2003.
A COLLECTION OF JAPANESE MINIATURE PORCELAIN PIECES EDO PERIOD, 17TH CENTURY Comprising: a small dish moulded with floral design and with polychrome decoration; a fan-shaped dish; an ingot-shaped one moulded with saya-gata key fret; two shoki Imari moulded circular dishes, one with karakusa scrolls; and the shards of three blue and white miniature vases; 11cm max. (8) Provenance: from the collection of Dr Oliver Impey (1936-2005), and Dr Jane (Mellanby) Impey (1938-2021), of Cumnor Place, Oxford.
A COLLECTION OF JAPANESE BLUE AND WHITE PIECES EDO PERIOD, 17TH CENTURY AND LATER Comprising: two shoki Imari dishes, each painted with a large daikon to the well, one with a kintsugi gold lacquer repair; two shoki Imari bowls with barbed rims, one with lotus leaves and the other with a floral design; another dish with karakusa scrolls and the last painted with a pine tree with fan-shaped leaves, 17.5cm max. (6) Provenance: from the collection of Dr Oliver Impey (1936-2005), and Dr Jane (Mellanby) Impey (1938-2021), of Cumnor Place, Oxford. See Christie's Amsterdam, 20th May 2003, lot 391, for a similar shoki Imari bowl with lotus decoration.
TWO JAPANESE BLUE AND WHITE MOULDED DISHES EDO PERIOD, 17TH AND 18TH/19TH CENTURY The first of trilobe shape and raised on a short foot, decorated to the well with three herons in low relief, with tall grasses and a stream beside them painted in underglaze blue; the other a Nabeshima dish, with a foliate rim and moulded with swirling waves, the well with two three-clawed dragons, raised on a circular foot with comb design, 16.2cm and 16cm respectively. (2) Provenance: from the collection of Dr Oliver Impey (1936-2005), and Dr Jane (Mellanby) Impey (1938-2021), of Cumnor Place, Oxford. Cf. Ko-Imari: A Catalogue of Hizen Porcelain from the Nezu Museum's Yamamoto Collection, p.154, no.600 for a related dragon dish. Also, see the Kyushu Ceramic Museum, Complete Catalogue of Shibata Collection, p.76, no.597, for another similar crane dish.
A RARE JAPANESE MOULDED DISH EDO PERIOD, MID-17TH CENTURY Painted in underglaze blue and polychrome enamels, the well decorated with a large leaf, its veins crisply moulded; with small prunus blossoms and tendrils on a cash diaper ground to the side; the reverse with scrolling foliage and stylised flowers; raised on a short foot decorated with comb pattern, 16.5cm. Provenance: from the collection of Dr Oliver Impey (1936-2005), and Dr Jane (Mellanby) Impey (1938-2021), of Cumnor Place, Oxford. Cf. Ko-Imari: A Catalogue of Hizen Porcelain from the Nezu Museum's Yamamoto Collection, p.74, no.281, for a related dish with the same decoration. Also, see the Kyushu Ceramic Museum, Complete Catalogue of Shibata Collection, p.27, no.0201, for another example without the overglaze decoration.
A RARE JAPANESE MATSUGATANI-TYPE DISH EDO PERIOD, 17TH CENTURY The moulded body decorated with a laurel-green and brown glaze, the mottling resembling turtle shell patterns; raised on a short oval foot; with a kintsugi gold lacquer repair to the rim and another to the footrim, 15.7cm. Provenance: from the collection of Dr Oliver Impey (1936-2005), and Dr Jane (Mellanby) Impey (1938-2021), of Cumnor Place, Oxford. See Ko-Imari: A Catalogue of Hizen Porcelain from the Nezu Museum's Yamamoto Collection, p.145, no.554, for a related dish with the same irregular shape.
PLEASE NOTE THE ESTIMATE SHOULD READ £500-800A STUDY COLLECTION OF POLYCHROME ITEMS17TH CENTURY AND LATERComprising: three Chinese pieces, including a large fan-shaped dish painted in the Imari palette after a Japanese model; an incised dish with a café-au-lait back, a Kangxi lingzhi mark to the base and enamelled in Europe; a small double-gourd vase with an underglaze blue bird perched on a branch and polychrome enamels; together with three Japanese pieces, a small early-enamelled bulbous jar, a Europe-decorated cup and a polychrome dish with mon and brocade patterns, 29.2cm max. (6)Provenance: from the collection of Dr Oliver Impey (1936-2005), and Dr Jane (Mellanby) Impey (1938-2021), of Cumnor Place, Oxford.
PLEASE NOTE THAT THE ESTIMATE SHOULD READ £500-800A COLLECTION OF JAPANESE PORCELAIN ITEMSEDO AND MEIJI, 18TH AND 19TH CENTURYComprising: three bowls, five small dishes and one plate, variously decorated in the Imari palette, Kinrande style and with polychrome enamels and underglaze blue, embellished with mythical creatures, figures, landscapes and flowers, the plate with Dutchmen and Black Ships, 24.3cm max. (9)Provenance: from the collection of Dr Oliver Impey (1936-2005), and Dr Jane (Mellanby) Impey (1938-2021), of Cumnor Place, Oxford.
A SMALL COLLECTION OF JAPANESE PORCELAIN ITEMS MEIJI OR LATER, 19TH OR 20TH CENTURY Comprising: an Imari-style foliate dish decorated with many chrysanthemums and brocade patterns in gilt and polychrome; a dish painted with large cherry blossoms in iron-red and gilt, and a small Nabeshima-style square-section vase with a tall neck decorated with flower sprays, all signed, 27.7cm max. (3) Provenance: an English private collection, acquired in Japan in the 1960s-70s. PLEASE NOTE THIS LOT IS TO BE OFFERED WITHOUT RESERVE.
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