The Property of a Gentleman
A Kakiemon dish | Edo period, late 17th century
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October 5, 01:47 PM GMT
Estimate
3,000 - 4,000 GBP
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The Property of a Gentleman
A Kakiemon dish
Edo period, late 17th century
the shallow circular dish moulded in five lobes, decorated in iron red, green blue and yellow enamels and gilt, with a central roundel depicting plum, pine and young bamboo grass (sasa) forming the Three Friends of Winter (Shochikubai), surrounded by tree peony among rockwork, impressed rope pattern to the rim, the base with six spur marks
22 cm., 8⅝ in. diam.
Mathias Komor (1909-1984), New York
The entwined branches of prunus and pine are asymmetrically placed within the central roundel.
For a similar example in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum (The V&A), London, accession number 671-1901, go to:
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O493705/dish-unknown/
For another example, see Rand Castile et. al., The Burghley Porcelains: An Exhibition from the Burghley House Collection and Based on the 1688 Inventory and 1690 Devonshire Schedule, (New York, 1986), p. 263, no. 115.
For a further example formerly in the collection of Sir Harry and Lady Garner, see Soame Jenyns, Japanese Porcelain, (London, 1965), pl. 66B.
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