A pair of Japanese double gourd vases

Double-gourd-shaped bottel.
Lower gourd with a high shoulder, upper with gently rounded sides. A tall, wide neck, with an everted rim. Underglaze bleu decoration.
On the gourds a landschap with plants, rocks, clouds, water and figures. On the waist, blossoms between double lines.
Ascending flag ornament on the neck. A double line round foot.
A similar vase is in the collection of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam
Arita, 1670-1690
No restorations

Provenance: private collection Belgium

See literature:
Japanese export porcelain in Dutch collections
Christiaan J. A. Jorg
Page 29, image 10
Japanese export porcelain by Oliver Impey, catalogue of the collection of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.
Page 101, image 108, 109