An Imari Medicine Jar


Edo period (1615-1868), late 17th/early 18th centuryDecorated in iron-red, yellow and green overglaze enamels and underglaze blue with a continuous scene of three birds, two perched and one swooping among peonies and fruiting pomegranate sprays enclosed within a wide frieze encircling the body, the neck with four vertical stalks of red blossoms. 26cm (10¼in) high.
|An identical jar is illustrated in Oliver Impey, Japanese Export Porcelain: Catalogue of the Collection of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Amsterdam, Hotei Publishing, 2002, p.184, no.290.