A Large Porcelain Bowl

ARITA WARE, EDO PERIOD (1670-90)

Details

A Large Porcelain Bowl
Arita Ware, Edo Period (1670-90)
Decorated in vivid polychrome enamels over clear glaze with three Chinese lions and lotuses surrounding pomegranates encircled by two slender lines of greyish underglaze-blue, the exterior enamelled with three large peony sprays alternating with three red cloud clusters below a ribbonate band of red and green within underglaze-blue lines, thick foot ring unglazed, recessed base painted with a narrow circle in underglaze-blue
10.3/8in. (26.3cm.) diameter; 4.3/8in. (11.3cm.) high

Provenance

Richard W. Weatherhead
Richard de la Mare, sold Sotheby's, London, The Richard de la Mare Collection of Kakiemon and Nabeshima Porcelain, 2 June, 1976, lot 9

Exhibited

The Arts Council Gallery, London, "The Oriental Ceramic Society: Loan Exhibition of Japanese Porcelain," 1956.3.28--4.28

Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
Catalogue of an exhibition of Japanese porcelain, intro. by Soame Jenyns (London: The Oriental Ceramic Society, 1956), cat. no. 106 (not illustrated).
Soame Jenyns, Japanese Porcelain (London: Faber and Faber, Ltd., 1965), no. 52A.
Hayashiya Seizo, Kakiemon/Nabeshima, vol. 6 of Nihon no toji (Japanese ceramics) (Tokyo: Chuo Koronsha, 1972), pl. 39.
_____, Kakiemon, vol. 9 of Nihon no toji (Tokyo: Chuo Koronsha, 1974), pl. 39.

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