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An Arita dish
painted and gilt with a central scene of a scholar in an interior behind a table covered with albums and a scroll, two karako standing before him on a terrace overlooking a garden of bamboo, all within a border of cartouches of prunus, pine and pomegranates on a ground of trailing flowers and leaves -- 14¼in. (36.2cm.) diam, circa 1700, (some rubbing).
See Colour Plate 5.

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