Lot Essay
Similar examples sold in our London Rooms 28 October 1987, lot 82 and 7 March 1988, lot 20.
LATE 17TH/18TH CENTURY
Details
A rare pair of Arita 'hundred boys' shallow dishes
Late 17th/18th Century
The small plates raised on a short slightly tapering foot with shallow well and everted rim, decorated overall with the design of the 'Hall of One Hundred Boys' showing a central figure below the inscription Hyakushido among a large group of boys
16.6 cm. diam. (2)
Late 17th/18th Century
The small plates raised on a short slightly tapering foot with shallow well and everted rim, decorated overall with the design of the 'Hall of One Hundred Boys' showing a central figure below the inscription Hyakushido among a large group of boys
16.6 cm. diam. (2)
Literature
Catalogue, Blue and White Exhibition, Gemeentelijk Museum Het Princessehof, Leeuwaarden, 10 April - 19 June 1981, pl. 56.