A Porcelain Footed Dish

NANGAWARA, NABESHIMA WARE, EDO PERIOD (EARLY 17TH CENTURY)

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A Porcelain Footed Dish
Nangawara, Nabeshima Ware, Edo period (early 17th century)
The shallow dish set on a high pedestal foot and decorated in the interior with a band of leafy tendril links in underglaze-blue and green and yellow enamels, each link punctuated with a flower head in underglaze-blue and red enamel, the rim painted with an underglaze-blue wash, the underside painted in underglaze blue with three peony sprays; the foot decorated with a band of heart-shaped leaves in underglaze-cobalt
7¾in. (19.7cm.) diameter; 1¾in. (4.3cm.) high

Lot Essay

For 5-sun (approximately 15cm.) Nabeshima dishes of the same design (without the underglaze-blue wash around the rim) see Hayashi Seizo, Kakiemon Nabeshima, vol. 6 of Nihon no toji (Japanese ceramics) (Tokyo: Chuo Koronsha, 1972), pl. 306; Kurita Hideo, compiler, Imari Nabeshima (Ashikaga: Kurita Museum, 1979), pl. 130.

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