A Large Porcelain Dish
A Large Porcelain Dish

ARITA WARE, KAKIEMON STYLE, EDO PERIOD (CIRCA 1680)

Details
A Large Porcelain Dish
Arita Ware, Kakiemon Style, Edo Period (Circa 1680)
Decorated in polychrome enamels over clear glaze with birds, prunus and rocks, the surrounding flared walls enamelled with peonies, grasses and two large rocks, the underside covered by clear glaze with dense craquelure and high luster, four spur marks on recessed base
12in. (30.5cm.) diameter; 1.7/8in. (5.1cm.) 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 10
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. 189 (not illustrated).

For a virtually identical dish see Mark Hinton and Oliver Impey, Flowers of Fire: Kakiemon Porcelain from the English Country House, exh. cat. (London: Christie, Manson & Woods, Ltd., 1989), pl. 43 (coll. Audley End); for other dishes of the same pattern in the Ashmolean Museum and the Cleveland Museum of Art see Ashmolean Museum and Sotheby Parke Bernet, eds., Eastern Ceramics and other works of art from the collection of Gerald Reitlinger, exh. cat. (London: Philip Wilson Publishers, Ltd., 1981), no. 161; Richard S. Cleveland, 200 Years of Japanese Porcelain, exh. cat. (Saint Louis: City Art Museum, 1970), no. 87.

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