EDO PERIOD (18TH-19TH CENTURY)

This set of dishes may be associated with Kenzan's grandson, Ihachi, who worked in Kenzan style during the period 1720-50. For a comparable example in the Peabody-Essex Museum, Salem, see Richard Wilson, Ogata Kenzan: Persona and production in Japanese Ceramics (New York and Tokyo: Weatherhill, 1991), no. 339 (p. 245) and a discussion of Ihachi style on pp. 164-65.