A Nabeshima Dish
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A Nabeshima Dish

Edo period (late 17th-early 18th century)

Closed11 November 2015

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A Nabeshima Dish
Edo period (late 17th-early 18th century)
The shallow circular dish on a high foot, decorated in underglaze blue and coloured enamels with fujibakama [agrimony], the reverse with tasselled coin clusters, the ring foot with comb design
14.8 cm. diam.

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For similar examples, see:
Tokyo National Museum, Tokyo Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan zuhan mokuroku: Nihon toji hen [Illustrated catalogues of Tokyo National Museum: Japanese ceramics], (Tokyo, 1966), p. 85, no. 345
Imaizumi Motosuke, Nabeshima, vol. 21 of Toji taikei [A compendium of ceramics], (Tokyo, 1972), p. 106, no. 49 (Okayama Prefectural Museum of Art)
Hayashiya Seizo, ed., Nabeshima, vol. 10 of Nihon no Toji [Japanese ceramics], (Tokyo, 1988), p. 118, no. 202
Nagatake Takeshi and Yabe Yoshiaki et. al., Iro Nabeshima: Nabeshima-han yoseki hakkutsu kinen, (Fukuoka, 1982), p. 78
Kanagawa Prefectural Museum of Cultural History, ed., Tokubetsuten Nabeshima: Hanyo kara gendai made [Special exhibition of Nabeshima: From the provincial
public kiln to today] (Kanagawa, 1987), no. 132
City Art Museum of Saint Louis, 200 Years of Japanese Porcelain, (USA, 1970), p. 129, no. 121
Nabeshima hanyo chosa iinkai ed., Nabeshima hanyo no kenkyu, (Kyoto, 1954), no.2

For another example in the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco from the Avery Brundage collection (Object ID: B64P15), go to
http:/searchcollection.asianart.org/view/objects/asitem/nid/7752