Kakiemon ceramics are a type of Japanese porcelain that is characterized by its vibrant colors, intricate designs, and delicate beauty. The style is named after the Kakiemon family, who were master potters during the Edo period (1603-1868).

The history of Kakiemon ceramics can be traced back to the late 17th century, when the first Kakiemon, Sakaida Kakiemon I, developed a new style of porcelain that was based on Chinese and Korean ceramics, but with a unique Japanese flair. Kakiemon I was particularly interested in the Chinese "famille verte" style, which featured vibrant colours and intricate designs, and he developed his own version of this style, which he called "Aka-e" or "red pictures".

Kakiemon I's work was highly sought after by the shogunate and the aristocracy, and he became a leading figure in the world of Japanese ceramics. His family continued to produce porcelain in the Kakiemon style more...

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A fine quality 'Kakiemon' type reticulated porcelain circular…

19th Century Japanese Reticulated Porcelain Circular Dish, Kakiemon Style

A fine quality 'Kakiemon' type reticulated porcelain circular dish, Japanese 19th century, 17.5 cm diameter

A Japanese Kakiemon bowl, Edo period (1603-1868), 18th/19th…

Japanese Kakiemon Bowl with Bird and Plum Blossom

A Japanese Kakiemon bowl, Edo period (1603-1868), 18th/19th century, moulded with a flower-petal form rim and cavetto, decorated in underglaze blue and overglaze enamels with a bird amongst bamboo and plum blossom. Kakiemon fuku mark to the base. 3.5 cm…

A Japanese Kakiemon-Type Enamel-Decorated bowl, Edo period…

Japanese Kakiemon-Type Enamel Bowl, Edo Period, 1690-1710

A Japanese Kakiemon-Type Enamel-Decorated bowl, Edo period (1603-1868), 1690-1710, decorated very finely to the interior in Kakiemon palette enamels and gilding with three landscape vignettes separated by abstracted clouds containing diaper motifs, the…

A rare Japanese Proto-Kakiemon bowl, Edo period (1603-1868),…

Rare Japanese Proto-Kakiemon Ayu Fish Bowl, Edo Period (1660-1680)

A rare Japanese Proto-Kakiemon bowl, Edo period (1603-1868), 1660-1680, decorated in translucent early Kakiemon enamels with two lively 'Ayu' (sweet fish) circling in a perpetual, turbulent stream, the back undecorated. 5.5 cm high, 11.25 cm diameter.…

A Kakiemon style double gourd Kutani vase, Fuku mark common on…

Kutani Double Gourd Vase with Landscape and Floral Decor

A Kakiemon style double gourd Kutani vase, Fuku mark common on Kutani, second half 20th century the double gourd vase with a cylindrical neck, decorated with landscape and floral spray cartouches against various polychrome diaper patterned grounds, two…

Japanese Kakiemon porcelain fluted dish, Edo period (1603-1867),…

Kakiemon Porcelain Phoenix Dish, Edo Period

Japanese Kakiemon porcelain fluted dish, Edo period (1603-1867), c. 1700, deep circular dish with banded hedges, decorated with a phoenix flying above flowering branches, height 3.5 cm diameter 14 cm. Provenance: Stockspring Antiques, London. Private…

Good Kakiemon Japan painted ceramic table vase painted bird and…

Kakiemon Japan Ceramic Vase: Bird & Blossom Decoration (26cm)

Good Kakiemon Japan painted ceramic table vase painted bird and blossom decoration, marked to base, height 26 cm.

A Japanese Kakiemon style 'Shishi and Peony' dish, Edo period…

Japanese Kakiemon Style Shishi and Peony Dish

A Japanese Kakiemon style 'Shishi and Peony' dish, Edo period (1603-1868), 1670-1690, with lobed, foliate rim, decorated with a shishi on one side and a peony on the other in Kakiemon enamels, 2.75 cm high, 18.5 cm diameter.

A pair of Japanese Kakiemon type bowls, Genroku period…

Japanese Kakiemon Bowls with Rooster and Peonies Decoration

A pair of Japanese Kakiemon type bowls, Genroku period (1688-1704), moulded in flower form, with enamel decoration including a rooster amongst peonies to the centre, each 4.5 cm high, 12.5 cm diameter.

A Japanese Ai Kakiemon blue and white crane and Minogame dish,…

Japanese Kakiemon dish with crane and minogame design

A Japanese Ai Kakiemon blue and white crane and Minogame dish, Edo period (1603-1868), 1680-1700, with floriate form rim, decorated to the interior with a minogame on an island with a crane flying overhead, with warabi karakusa design and four butterflies…

A Japanese Nabeshima dish and an Arita Ruri dish, Edo period…

Japanese Nabeshima and Arita Ruri dishes, 19th century

A Japanese Nabeshima dish and an Arita Ruri dish, Edo period (1603-1868), 19th century and 1770-1790, the Nabeshima dish of moulded chrysanthemum form decorated in underglaze blue with branches of flowering paulownia. The other dish covered in a ruri blue…

Two Japanese Arita 'Kinrande' dishes, Edo period (1603-1868),…

Arita Kinrande Dishes from Edo Period

Two Japanese Arita 'Kinrande' dishes, Edo period (1603-1868), 1690-1730, comprising a fine enamelled and gilded dish decorated with pinks and chrysanthemums amongst rocks, and a lobed rim dish decorated with a hawk under a pine surrounded by a brocade…

A Japanese Koransha bowl and an Arita charger, Meiji period…

Japanese Koransha Bowl and Arita Charger, Meiji Period

A Japanese Koransha bowl and an Arita charger, Meiji period (1868-1912), 1880-1900, the Fukagawa bowl with deeply lobed rim and moulded form, decorated with the Chinese immortal Qingao riding a carp to the interior, the lobes decorated with brocade…

A Japanese Ai Kakiemon 'Shochikubai' bowl, Edo period…

Japanese Kakiemon 'Shochikubai' Bowl, Edo Period

A Japanese Ai Kakiemon 'Shochikubai' bowl, Edo period (1603-1868), 1690-1710, decorated with a 'Gobenka' flower to the centre, and three shaped reserves containing the 'Three friends of Winter' against a hanakarakusa (scrolling flower) ground to the…

A rare Japanese Arita blue and white Stencilled dish, Edo…

Rare Japanese Arita Blue and White Stencilled Dish

A rare Japanese Arita blue and white Stencilled dish, Edo period (1603-1868), 1690-1730, the lobed, rhomboid shaped dish decorated with an off-centre shaped reserve containing landscape decoration against a floral ground, the decoration applied by…

A Japanese Arita 'Fuyode' blue and white dish, Edo period…

Japanese Arita 'Fuyode' Blue and White Dish, Edo Period

A Japanese Arita 'Fuyode' blue and white dish, Edo period (1603-1868), 1680-1700, with a rippled rim, decorated in 'Kraak' style with a vase with flowers to the interior, and to the cavetto with a compartmentalised design of various flowers. Five spur…

A Japanese inscribed Ai Kakiemon blue and white and moulded…

Japanese Kakiemon Dish with Inscription and Moulded Decoration

A Japanese inscribed Ai Kakiemon blue and white and moulded dish, Edo period (1603-1868), 1750-1790, with a floriate form rim, and moulded decoration to the interior depicting two figures in a garden pavilion, and inscribed in Kanji with the first line…

A Japanese Arita blue and white and moulded charger, Edo period…

Edo Period Arita Charger with Dragon and Peonies

A Japanese Arita blue and white and moulded charger, Edo period (1603-1868), circa 1780, with a barbed and lobed everted rim, the interior decorated with peonies emerging from rocks, the cavetto with moulded relief decoration of dragons chasing flaming…

A Japanese Ai Kakiemon 'Van Frijtom' dish, Edo period…

Japanese Kakiemon Dish with Underglaze Blue Decoration

A Japanese Ai Kakiemon 'Van Frijtom' dish, Edo period (1603-1868), 1690-1710, of barbed floriate form, finely decorated in underglaze blue with figures, pagoda and fishing boats within a lakeside landscape, the rim dressed with iron enamel 'Fuchi beni'…

A Japanese Kakiemon style bowl, Edo period (1603-1868),…

Edo Kakiemon Style Flower Bowl

A Japanese Kakiemon style bowl, Edo period (1603-1868), 1680-1690, decorated asymmetrically with a spray of flowers to one side emerging from a paper origami in early Kakiemon colours of red, blue, yellow, turquoise and black, the rim dressed with 'Fuchi…

A Japanese Kakiemon dish, Edo period (1603-1868), 1675-1700,…

Kakiemon Phoenix Dish, Edo Period

A Japanese Kakiemon dish, Edo period (1603-1868), 1675-1700, with floriate form rim, decorated with two phoenixes on rocks amongst flowers in overglaze early Kakiemon enamels (red, blue, turquoise and yellow) and underglaze blue, surrounded by warblers…

Two Worcester cups and associated saucers, 1760s and 1772-1780…

Worcester & Sevres Cups and Saucers

Two Worcester cups and associated saucers, 1760s and 1772-1780 period, provenance A.J. Greenacre London 1995 for £650 (Jabberwocky), and Jupiter Antiques, E. Sussex for £420. A lobed ribbed cup and saucer decorated in the kakiemon 'Jabberwocky' pattern in…

A polychrome porcelain rice bowl and cover, early Showa period,…

Polychrome Peony Rice Bowl with Cover

A polychrome porcelain rice bowl and cover, early Showa period, decorated with pink, blue and white peony and other blooms in the kakiemon manner upon a translucent pale ground, unmarked, height 9 cm, diameter 10.5 cm.

A first period Worcester tea canister, circa 1770, Kakiemon…

Worcester Tea Canister, Kakiemon Style, 1770

A first period Worcester tea canister, circa 1770, Kakiemon style Imari patterns featuring ho ho birds and chrysanthemums in an iron red and green palette within gilded rococo cartouches with sunburst motifs upon a scale blue ground, lid absent; fret mark…

Good pair of 18th century Kakiemon dishes, of shaped form,…

18th Century Kakiemon Rooster Dishes

Good pair of 18th century Kakiemon dishes, of shaped form, decorated with a central image of a rooster, surrounded by molded and painted lotus and floral motifs, in tones of red, yellow, blue and green, diameter 12 cm (2). Provenance: The Ivan Ban…

A Japanese blue and white and enamel 'floral' dish, Possibly…

Japanese Enamel Floral Dish, Late 17th Century

A Japanese blue and white and enamel 'floral' dish, Possibly imari, late 17th/ early 18th century underside freely inscribed in underglaze blue fuku [?] mark, 21.6 cm diam., 4.9 cm high. The particular fuku mark is said to be discontinued after 1710 and…

A pair of Kakiemon dishes, 18th century each of petal-lobed…

18th Century Kakiemon Floral Dishes

A pair of Kakiemon dishes, 18th century each of petal-lobed form, painted in iron-red, blue, turquoise and yellow enamels with scattered floral sprigs, brown-edged rim 18 cm diameter Sotheby's London, 16 November 1989, lot 588

First period Worcester cup and saucer, Imari style decoration…

Imari Style Worcester Cup and Saucer, England 1775

First period Worcester cup and saucer, Imari style decoration with Kakiemon flowers in compartments. Underglaze blue seal mark with red enamel crescent. England, circa 1775.

A Kakiemon blue and white bowl printed with tiger and bamboo…

Kakiemon Blue and White Tiger Bowl

A Kakiemon blue and white bowl printed with tiger and bamboo amidst blossom. Diameter 24.5 cm

An antique Arita plate, Edo period, circa 1750, in underglaze…

Arita Plate, Edo Period, Garden and Blossom Decoration

An antique Arita plate, Edo period, circa 1750, in underglaze blue and enamel decorated in an elegant iron red, green and gilt palette, depicting a fenced garden in the kakiemon manner, prunus, blossom decoration to the exterior, with concentric blue…

A Japanese bowl in a French ormolu mount, 18th to 19th century,…

Japanese Kakiemon Bowl in French Ormolu Mount

A Japanese bowl in a French ormolu mount, 18th to 19th century, the kakiemon bowl with underglaze blue and enamel decoration with a moulded and floral decorated rim enclosing a central 'Two quail' and floral landscape design, the exterior similarly…

Continental 19th century Kakiemon pattern plate

Kakiemon Plate, 19th Century Continental Design

Continental 19th century Kakiemon pattern plate

A good matched pair of Chantilly Kakiemon Rafraichissoirs,…

Pair of Chantilly Kakiemon Rafraichissoirs, 1730

A good matched pair of Chantilly Kakiemon Rafraichissoirs, circa 1730, of typical form with branch and leaf handles, each painted with squirrel and kakiemon flowers, red hunting horn mark on one, 9.5 cm high, (2)

A large Chantilly Kakiemon 'Seau a Bouteille' wine cooler,…

Chantilly Kakiemon Wine Cooler with Dragon Handle and Squirrel Design

A large Chantilly Kakiemon 'Seau a Bouteille' wine cooler, circa 1735, of cylindrical form with dragon form handle mounts, painted with squirrel and Kakiemon flowers, red hunting horn mark, 16 height x 19 cm diameter

Kakiemon bottle vase flattened ovoid body with traditional…

Floral Kakiemon Bottle Vase - 33cm

Kakiemon bottle vase flattened ovoid body with traditional floral enamel decoration, hole drilled to base, 33 cm high

A pair of Kakiemon bowls, early 18th century, each of deeply…

18th Century Kakiemon Bowls with Butterflies and Flowers

A pair of Kakiemon bowls, early 18th century, each of deeply lobed form, moulded with spiral ribs and painted in blue and turquoise enamels, iron-red and gilding with black outlines, depicting butterflies and sprays of flowers, the interior with a single…

Japanese Kakiemon pattern dish

Japanese Kakiemon Dish

Japanese Kakiemon pattern dish

A pair of Kakiemon porcelain plates, Showa period, mid 1970s,…

Kakiemon Porcelain Plates Pair, Showa Period

A pair of Kakiemon porcelain plates, Showa period, mid 1970s, the pair of shallow bowls, decorated in enamels in the kakiemon palette of blue, emerald green, iron red and buff, one with birds in an asymmetric floral and rocky setting, the other with a…

A Chantilly quatrefoil ecuelle, cover and stand, circa 1735,…

Chantilly Kakiemon-style Ecuelle, Cover, and Stand (1735)

A Chantilly quatrefoil ecuelle, cover and stand, circa 1735, decorated in the Kakiemon manner, having a three flower finial to the cover, decorated with beetles, flowering plants and scattered insects, the stand with brown rim, iron red hunting horn mark,…

Japanese rare Kakiemon style Arita porcelain model of a bulldog,…

Kakiemon-style Arita Bulldog Porcelain, 19th Century

Japanese rare Kakiemon style Arita porcelain model of a bulldog, 19th century, modelled as seated on its hind legs, his back decorated with floral design in the Kakiemon palette. Length 19 cm. Provenance: Gary Winther Collection