Live Auction 13988Art of Japan
A PORCELAIN DISH
Lot 95 PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE EUROPEAN GENTLEMAN

A PORCELAIN DISH

NABESHIMA WARE, OKAWACHI OFFICIAL KILNS, HIZEN (IMARI CITY), EDO PERIOD (LATE 17TH - EARLY 18TH CENTURY)

Closed5 December 2017

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A PORCELAIN DISH
NABESHIMA WARE, OKAWACHI OFFICIAL KILNS, HIZEN (IMARI CITY), EDO PERIOD (LATE 17TH - EARLY 18TH CENTURY)
The circular dish on a high ring foot, decorated in iron red and yellow enamel on underglaze blue with camellia blossoms strung on a thread, the reverse with three tasselled coin clusters, the ring foot with comb design
20.3 cm. diam.

Specialist note

For similar examples, see
Yoshiko Kakudo, ed., The Art of Japan, Masterworks in the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco (San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1991), pl. 113. (The Avery Brundage Collection)
Takasu Toyoji, Kakiemon, Nabeshima (Kakiemon and Nabeshima wares), vol. 23 of Toki zenshu (Collection of ceramics) (Tokyo: Heibonsha, 1961), pl. 54
Mayuyama Junkichi, ed., Mayuyama, Seventy Years, vol. I (Tokyo: Benrido Co., Ltd., 1976), pl. 138