Lot Essay
This seems to be a prototype for the Chelsea design dating from 1750-1752. For an example of this, see Hugo Morley-Fletcher, Techniques of the World's Great Masters of Pottery and Ceramics, p. 112.
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FUKU MARK, EDO PERIOD (18TH CENTURY)
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A FOLIATE RIMMED KAKIEMON DISH
Fuku Mark, Edo Period (18th Century)
Decorated in iron-red, green and black enamels and gilt on underglaze blue with a long tailed pheasant on rockwork beneath a blossoming plum tree and another in flight over bamboo and brushwood fences, the reverse with a continuous band of karakusa, chocolate rim
11in. (28cm.) diam.
Fuku Mark, Edo Period (18th Century)
Decorated in iron-red, green and black enamels and gilt on underglaze blue with a long tailed pheasant on rockwork beneath a blossoming plum tree and another in flight over bamboo and brushwood fences, the reverse with a continuous band of karakusa, chocolate rim
11in. (28cm.) diam.