Lot Essay
This design is comparatively rare in Europe and unlike the banded hedge design with bamboo does not often appear in English recorded Country House Collections.
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EDO PERIOD (LATE 17TH CENTURY)
Details
A KAKIEMON DISH
Edo Period (Late 17th Century)
Decorated in gilt, iron-red, blue, turquoise and black enamels with a spray of pomegranates emerging from rocks beside a bamboo fence, two birds in flight above, chocolate rim
9.15/16in. (25.3cm.) diam.
Edo Period (Late 17th Century)
Decorated in gilt, iron-red, blue, turquoise and black enamels with a spray of pomegranates emerging from rocks beside a bamboo fence, two birds in flight above, chocolate rim
9.15/16in. (25.3cm.) diam.
Literature
For a similar example see Mark Hinton and Oliver Impey, Flowers of Fire: Kakiemon Porcelain from the English Country House (London, 1989), pl. 30