A PAIR OF IMARI BOTTLE VASES EDO PERIOD, LATE 17TH CENTURY |

oviform with tall tapering necks decorated in iron red, green, aubergine and black enamels and gilt on underglaze blue with lotus leaf shaped panels depicting bijin in a floral landscape surrounded by birds in pine branches, beneath floral design to the neck, gilt rims

Overall these are in fine condition with some minor rubbing to the gilt, consummate with the age and use of the objects.
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For a similar pair of Imari tokkuri in the collection of Augustus the Strong, Dresden, see Fredrich Reichel, Early Japanese Porcelain, Arita Porcelain in the Dresden Collection, (Leipzig, 1980), pl.56