EDO PERIOD (CIRCA 1730)

Details

An Imari bowl and saucer
Edo Period (Circa 1730)
Decorated in underglaze blue, iron-red, yellow, green and gilt enamels with a central roundel depicting a sage seated at a low table, reserved on a diaper-pattern ground enriched with three petal-shaped panels enclosing a chrysanthemum spray between single figures in gilt, the slightly everted rim encircled by a narrow trellis diaper pattern border, some rubbing to the gilt
the saucer 17.5 cm. diam. (2)

Exhibited

Porcelain for Palaces, The British Museum, 1990, p. 225, no. 239.
Ko-Imari porcelain from the Collection of Oliver Impey, Barry Davies Oriental Art, London, 1997, no. 125.

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Lot Essay

A similar saucer is in Louisa Ambrosia, Kakiemon e Imari, Porcellane Giapponesi nel Museo Duca de Martina, Naples, 1984, p. 95. For a Derby example, see Porcelain for Palaces, The British Museum, 1990, p. 294, no. 355.

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