A NEAR PAIR OF JAPANESE IMARI TOKKURI

A NEAR PAIR OF JAPANESE IMARI TOKKURI

EDO PERIOD, EARLY 18TH CENTURY

The sake bottles with tall bulbous bodies and elongated necks, both painted in underglaze blue, gilt, green, yellow, red and purple enamels, with shaped panels enclosing ho-o birds in flight and iron-red medallions containing stylised flowerheads, on a dense ground of blossoms and scrolling tendrils, the shoulders with chrysanthemum mon and lappets, 24cm and 23cm. (2)

See Sotheby's, London, Japanese Works of Art, Paintings and Screens, Wednesday 17th April 1996, lot 123, for another pair of Kenjo Imari bottles.