Fine Japanese Art
Fine Japanese Art
A NABESHIMA DISH EDO PERIOD, LATE 17TH CENTURY
Auction Closed
November 3, 04:10 PM GMT
Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
A NABESHIMA DISH
EDO PERIOD, LATE 17TH CENTURY
the shallow dish on ring foot decorated in iron-red, green and yellow enamels over underglaze blue, with cherry blossoms scattered on rafts in swirling water, decorated on the underside in underglaze blue with three flower sprays, each composed of a large floret centred by scrolling stems and leaves, with a band of comb design around the foot
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20 cm., 7⅞ in. diam.
EDO PERIOD, LATE 17TH CENTURY
the shallow dish on ring foot decorated in iron-red, green and yellow enamels over underglaze blue, with cherry blossoms scattered on rafts in swirling water, decorated on the underside in underglaze blue with three flower sprays, each composed of a large floret centred by scrolling stems and leaves, with a band of comb design around the foot
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20 cm., 7⅞ in. diam.
For a similar example in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession number 23.225.308, go to: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/60034372?img=0
For a further example in the Hakone Art Museum, see Hayashi Seizo, ed., Nabeshima, Nihon no toji [Japanese ceramics], vol. 10 (Tokyo, 1975), pl. 145; for other dishes of the same design see Seki Kazuo, Nabeshima kozara [Nabeshima small dishes] (Osaka, 1995), pl. 16, p.64; Imaizumi Motosuke, Nabeshima to matsugatani (Tokyo, 1969), pl. 9.