A Porcelain Dish

NABESHIMA WARE, EDO PERIOD (EARLY 18TH CENTURY)

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A Porcelain Dish
Nabeshima Ware, Edo Period (Early 18th Century)
Circular, set on a raised ring foot and painted in underglaze-blue and colored enamels with two jars in a basket, a branch of red camellias and narcissus, the extended, flat rim painted in cobalt blue under the transparent glaze with a band of linked rui-head clouds, and the underside painted in underglaze-blue with three tasseled clusters of coins and with a 'comb-tooth' band around the raised ring foot
86in. (20.3cm.) diameter

Lot Essay

For a matching dish see Asahi Shimbun, ed., Les Cadeaux au Shogun: Porcelaine Precieuse des Seigneurs de Nabeshima, exh. cat. (Tokyo: Asahi Shimbunsha, 1997), pl. 79; Imaizumi Motosuke, Nabeshima, Famous Ceramics of Japan 1 (Tokyo, New York and San Francisco: Kodansha International, Ltd., 1981), pl. 37; ibid, Nabeshima to Matsugatani (Tokyo: Yuzankaku, 1969), no. 115.

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