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A Rare Pair of Imari Dishes for the Chinese Market
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A Rare Pair of Imari Dishes for the Chinese Market

EDO PERIOD (MID-17TH CENTURY)

Closed17 December 2013

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A Rare Pair of Imari Dishes for the Chinese Market
Edo period (mid-17th century)
Each with petal-lobed rim, decorated in the Chinese famille verte style in underglaze blue, red, green, yellow enamels and gilt with a central roundel of peonies, the rim with further peonies, chrysanthemums, plum blossoms and camellia, the reverse with plum blossoms floating on water, each with eight spur marks
Each 29.2cm. diam.

Specialist note

For a similar example, see Nagatake Takeshi and Yabe Yoshiaki, Imari, vol. 19 of Nihon Toji Taikei (Tokyo, 1989), pl. 77.
Another example is in the collection of the Toguri Museum of Art, see Toguri Bijutsukan, Nihon Toji Meihin Zuroku (Tokyo, 1988), pp. 114 - 115, pl. 158.