16th May, 2011 0:00
ORIENTAL SALE
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▲ Miss Joan Spence was born in Kobe in Jap
Shortly before Japan's bombing of Pearl Harbour on 7 December 1941, all aliens were obliged to leave with immediate effect taking only one packing case with them. With the help of their Korean driver and her father's contacts, Joan and her mother managed to escape with eight cases on the Empress of Asiato Vancouver.
When Joan inherited the collection, she continued the practice of using the porcelain. She married Mr Ronnie Day.
On 28 June 1990, at the Hexham Antiques Roadshow, Mrs Day came to my table and unpacked a Japanese plate of a type then identified as Kakiemon, now Arita, Kakiemon type. She had two others and I decided she should be recorded. As each plate was produced and valued, Joan (as I came to call her) announced she had five, eight, ten more. Over the years I visited her, photographed the collection and got to know her well. She was one of a kind. Curiously, her biological clock had stuck on Kobe time and she was never available before midday.
Odd pieces were given away, but the collection is largely as it left Japan in 1941.
The blue and white was Japanese domestic ware, not exported, and is therefore rarely encountered in the West. Most of it is well executed and very decorative, and, dare one say it, usable.
David Battie
JAPANESE BLUE & WHITE PORCELAIN, EIGHTEENTH/NINETEENTH CENTURY
To avoid repetition, the following lots are all understood to be Japanese Arita porcelain, dating from the 18th or 19th centuries, and painted in underglaze blue unless otherwise stated.
Six small octagonal Bowls,
painted with aubergine on a blue ground, cog-wheel foot,
14cm (6)
See Shibata Catalogue,VI no.128, where they are dated 1800-1860 andKo-Imari Porcelain from the Collection of Oliver Impey,1997, no. 82, for an earlier - 1750- example.
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Sold for £240
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Auction: ORIENTAL SALE, 16th May, 2011
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16MAY11 - STANSTED MOUNTFITCHET - BAND
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