Pair of Japanese Imari Porcelain Covered Urns
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Pair of Japanese Imari Porcelain Covered Urns
second half 19th century, each of eight-sided baluster form, with everted neck supporting a high domed cover with flared rim, surmounted by a shishi-form finial, the body decorated with opposing cartouches depicting butterflies amid foliage and ducks in a pond setting, surrounded by various smaller cartouches and stylized flowerheads, all in the traditional Imari palette.
h. 23-1/3", dia. 10"
second half 19th century, each of eight-sided baluster form, with everted neck supporting a high domed cover with flared rim, surmounted by a shishi-form finial, the body decorated with opposing cartouches depicting butterflies amid foliage and ducks in a pond setting, surrounded by various smaller cartouches and stylized flowerheads, all in the traditional Imari palette.
h. 23-1/3", dia. 10"
Condition
In overall good condition. One urn has some chips to the inside rims and three repairs. The shishi
finial has been resecured with traces of adhesive around the feet. The other urn lid also has a few chips
and a repair. Both urns exhibit some chips, minor wear to the gilding and innate firing anomalies,
including two parallel 3" fissures to the inside of one vase near the shoulder and a smaller one to one
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Pair of Japanese Imari Porcelain Covered Urns
Estimate $1,500 - $2,500
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