EARLY EDO PERIOD (LATE 17TH CENTURY)

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AN OUTSTANDING ENAMELLED LOBED DISH
Early Edo Period (Late 17th Century)
With a low footring and ten-lobed outline, in iron-red and various shades of green, yellow and black enamels and gilding on underglaze blue with stylised paulownia leaves and blossoms against a lattice design interspersed with formal floral motifs, the sides with waves and blossoms, the base with a mark in the form of a clove surrounded by branches of leaves, five spur-marks, with wood storage box
12½in. (31.8cm.) diameter

Literature

Manno Art Museum, Manno korekushon senshu [Selected Masterpieces of the Manno Collection] (Osaka, Manno Kinen Bunka Zaidan, 1988), cat. no. 79

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Lot Essay

For other examples of this pattern, which is variously described in the Japanese literature as either 'Kakiemon' or 'Imari', see Nagatake Takeshi and Yabe Yoshinari, Imari (Nihon toji taikei [A compendium of Japanese ceramics], vol. 19 (Tokyo, Heibonsha, 1989), cat. no. 78 (dated 1690-1710); Itabashi Kuritsu Bijutsukan [Itabashi Ward Museum], Edo zenki no iroe jiki ten [Exhibition of early Edo decorated porcelain] (Tokyo, 1981), cat. no. 53; and Chuokoronsha, Nihon no toji [Japanese ceramics], vol. 9, Kakiemon (Tokyo, 1974), cat. no. 14, dated to the Genroku era (1688-1704) and designated a Juyo bijutsuhin [Important Art Object] in 1933.

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