SQUARE SHIN MARK, EDO PERIOD (EARLY-MID 17TH CENTURY)

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A Shoki Imari Dish
Square shin mark, Edo period (early-mid 17th century)
Decorated in underglaze blue, with a bird on a branch on a stylised water side with yomodasuki pattern encircled by a band of nyoito, the rim with a band of shippo-hanabishi, the reverse with three spiral marks
20.5cm. diam.

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Lot Essay

For a similar example, see Koji Ohashi and Masaaki Arakawa, Shoki Imari ten: Sometsuke to Iroe no Tanjyo [Early Imari: the Origins of Underglaze Cobalt-blue and Overglaze Polychrome Enamels] (Tokyo, 2004), pl. 162

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