A porcelain footed dish

NABESHIMA WARE, OKAWACHI OFFICIAL KILNS, HIZEN (IMARI CITY), EDO PERIOD (1680-1720)

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A porcelain footed dish
Nabeshima Ware, Okawachi official kilns, Hizen (Imari City), Edo period (1680-1720)
The circular dish on raised foot, decorated in underglaze-blue with a band of stylized floral scroll, underside with three flower sprays and a comb-tooth band around the foot
5 ¾ in. (14.6 cm.) diameter

Lot Essay

Dishes with this classic kenjo design on the base were made for presentation to the family of the Tokugawa Shogun. There is a dish with this design in the Kyushu Ceramic Museum, Arita. For a shard with the same design excavated from the Okawachi kilns, see Seki Kazuo, ed., Nabeshima kozara - Ai Nabeshima kozara to sono shuhen (Small Nabeshima dishes - Small Nabeshima underglazed dishes and peripheral works) (Tokyo: Ribun Shuppan Co., Ltd, 1995), pl. 70.

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