A DECAGONAL KAKIEMON DISH

EDO PERIOD (LATE 17TH CENTURY)

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A DECAGONAL KAKIEMON DISH
Edo Period (Late 17th Century)
Decorated in iron-red, green, blue, yellow and black enamels and gilt with a tiger standing on a riverbank beside bamboo growing from rockwork, his head turned toward a blossoming plum tree growing among rockwork and bamboo, the lobed and everted rim with a continuous band of stylised cherry blossom and peonies among scrolling foliage, chocolate rim, rim chip restored
9.3/8in. (24cm.) diam.

Provenance

Burdett-Coutts Collection

Lot Essay

A dish of the same design in the collection of Burghley House is illustrated in The Burghley Porcelains, no. 101 (see illustration). Other examples are illustrated in Kakiemon no Sekai, Genryu Kara Gendai Made, p. 86, Nihon Toji Taikei, vol. 20, Kakiemon, no. 52, Kakiemon (Staatliche Museen, Kassel, 1993), pl. 105 and Nagatake Takeshi, Kakiemon, pl. 14.

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