Coupe en porcelaine Nabeshima Japon, époque Edo, XVIIE-XVIIIE siècle

peint d'un arbre au tronc noueux chargé de fleurs d'osmanthe odorantes rehaussées de rouge-de-fer s'épanouissant complètement à l'intérieur du plat, disparaissant partiellement derrière des volutes de nuages sombres en bleu sous couverte

Private Collection, Japan.
Acquired from Eskenazi Ltd., London, 13th January 1999.

Les Cadeaux au Shogun. Porcelaine Précieuse des seigneurs de Nabeshima, Mitsukoshi Etoile, Paris, 16 December 1997 - 14 February 1998, no. 70. 

Les Cadeaux au Shogun, Porcelaine Précieuse des seigneurs de Nabeshima, Tokyo, 1993, cat. no. 70.

The dish is in overall very good condition with the exception of a ca. 1cm wide flat bump beneath the glaze (and part of the sherd/body) visible on the exterior and interior of the well just left of the roots of the tree on the lower centre of the dish. There is very light wear to the glaze and green and yellow enamels on the interior. The underglaze blue is of a richer tone and the enamels of a more transculent tone than the catalogue illustration suggests.
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