Lot 143
A Kakiemon dish Edo period (1615-1868), circa 1700
16 May 2019, 14:00 BST
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Edo period (1615-1868), circa 1700
Painted in underglaze blue with a landscape of two boats in a river, two travellers crossing a bridge and huts among distant mountains, within a border of pomegranates, peony and camellia in enamels and underglaze blue. 25.3cm (10in) diameter.
Painted in underglaze blue with a landscape of two boats in a river, two travellers crossing a bridge and huts among distant mountains, within a border of pomegranates, peony and camellia in enamels and underglaze blue. 25.3cm (10in) diameter.
Footnotes
For a slightly smaller dish of the same design, see Oliver Impey, Japanese Export Porcelain, Catalogue of the Collection of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Amsterdam, Hotei Publishing, 2002, p.128, no.168; Nagatake Takeshi and Imura Yukihiko eds., Nihon no bi no bi: Kareinaru Ko-Imari: Kakiemon, Imari, Satsuma (The Beauty of Japanese Beauty: Glorious Ko-Imari: Kakiemon, Imari, Satsuma), Kyoto, Kyoto Bisho, 1980, no.28.
Similar dishes with variations on the design are illustrated by Oliver Impey, ibid., p.128, nos.169 and 170.