RARE AND BEAUTIFUL BOTTLE OF SHAPE SAID "TOKKURI" in Imari porcelain enamelled cobalt blue, iron red, polychrome enamels on cover and gold highlights. The quadrangular belly is finely decorated with four rectangular reserves decorated with smaller reserves of various shapes, on a honeycomb background, hosting flowering branches and shrubs and bamboos, the frames decorated with scrolls left in reserve and gold on a coral background, the shoulder decorated with four polylobate reserves on a blue background, the small flared neck decorated with banana leaves.
Japan, Arita, Edo period (1603-1868).
AN IMARI PORCELAIN TOKKURI SAKE BOTTLE, JAPAN, ARITA, EDO PERIOD.
TOP. 25 CM (9 13/16 IN.)