An Imari barber's bowl and a dish
Edo Period (Late 17th/Early 18th Century)
Painted with a central flower-vase with peony, surrounded to the rim by three shaped floral cartouches enclosing plum blossom, reserved on a washed-blue ground enriched with flower-heads, rim chip, rubbed gilding, 25.4 cm. wide; and an Imari dish with a central flower-vase within a shaped panel surrounded by three cartouches enclosing pine, irises and cherry alternated by stylised lotus below the foliate rim, rubbed, rim frits
26.7 cm. diam. (2)
An Imari barber's bowl and a dish
Edo Period (Late 17th/Early 18th Century)
Painted with a central flower-vase with peony, surrounded to the rim by three shaped floral cartouches enclosing plum blossom, reserved on a washed-blue ground enriched with flower-heads, rim chip, rubbed gilding, 25.4 cm. wide; and an Imari dish with a central flower-vase within a shaped panel surrounded by three cartouches enclosing pine, irises and cherry alternated by stylised lotus below the foliate rim, rubbed, rim frits
26.7 cm. diam. (2)