Live Auction 5546Asobi: Ingenious Creativity, Japanese Works of Art from Antiquity to Contemporary
A Nabeshima Dish
Lot 61

A Nabeshima Dish

EDO PERIOD (LATE 17TH CENTURY)

Closed15 October 2014

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A Nabeshima Dish
Edo period (late 17th century)
Decorated iron red, green, yellow enamels on underglaze blue with a scrolling peony design, the tsubabuchi rim with a band of lappets, the reverse with cash motif and comb design to the foot rim
20.5cm diam.

Specialist note

For further examples in museum collections see:

The Okayama Prefectural Museum of Art, see Imaizumi Motosuke, Nihon no Yakimono [Japanese Ceramics] vo. 21, Nabeshima (Tokyo, 1975), pl. 48; Chuokoronsha, Nihon Toji Zenshu [Complete Collection of Japanese Ceramics]. vol. 25, Nabeshima (Tokyo, 1976), pl. 29.

The Hayashibara Museum, see Saga ken ritsu Kyushu toji bunkakan ed., Shogun-ke eno kenjo Nabeshima [Nabeshima Porclain for the Shogunate], exhibition catalogue, (Japan, 2006), p. 97, pl. 104.

The Suntory Museum of Art collection, see Suntory Museum of Art ed., Hokori takaki dezain Nabeshima [Nabeshima Ware Designs that Inspire Pride], exhibition catalogue, (Tokyo, 2010), p. 71, pl. 48.

Also see Saga ken ritsu Kyushu toji bunkakan ed., Shogun-ke kenjo no [Ceramics for the Shogunate] Nabeshima, Hirado, Karatsu, exhibition catalogue, (Saga, 2012), p. 58, pl. 71