A Shoki Imari dish | Square Shin mark | Edo period, mid-17th century

Property from the Henry Lawrence Collection

A Shoki Imari dish

Square Shin mark

Edo period, mid-17^th century

the shallow dish with raised rim and wide ring foot, decorated in underglaze blue with a plump long-tailed pheasant in the bare branches of a gnarled tree, emerging from a stylised waters with yomodasuki patterning, the border with a band of nyoiito and floral shippo-hanabishi

25 cm., 8 in. diam.