Live Auction 12020Aesthetic Intuition: Collecting Japanese Art in Post-War London
A Nabeshima Dish
Lot 108

A Nabeshima Dish

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

Closed11 November 2015

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A Nabeshima Dish
Edo period (late 17th century – early 18th century)
The circular dish with wide everted rim on a high foot, decorated in underglaze blue with a large water wheel in waves, surrounded by scattered cherry blossoms in a stream, the reverse with tasselled coin clusters, the ring foot with comb design, with wood box
20.5cm. diam.

Specialist note

For the similar design of the water wheel without the surrounding cherry blossoms, see:
Nagatake Takeshi and Yabe Yoshiaki et. al., Iro Nabeshima: Nabeshima-han yoseki hakkutsu kinen, (Fukuoka, 1982), p. 51 (Tanakamaru Foundation Collection)
Nagatake Takeshi, Iro-Nabeshima: Nihon jiki no seika, Hizen Nabeshima-han goyogama no meiki, (Kyoto, 1975) (Tanakamaru Foundation Collection)
Christie’s ed., Ceramic Masterpieces from Southern Japan, Tea Ware and Porcelain from the Tanakamaru Foundation Collection, (London, 2001), p.62, no.26
Imaizumi Motosuke, Nabeshima, vol. 21 of Toji taikei [A compendium of ceramics], (Tokyo, 1974), no. 75
Hayashiya Seizo, ed., Nabeshima, vol. 10 of Nihon no Toji [Japanese ceramics], (Tokyo, 1988), p.52-53, no. 31

According to the above publication of Iro Nabeshima, this design of a water wheel was inspired from a design of Japanese traditional Yuzen textile.