Two Porcelain Dishes

ARITA WARE, KAKIEMON STYLE, EDO PERIOD (CIRCA 1700)

Details

Two Porcelain Dishes
Arita Ware, Kakiemon Style, Edo Period (Circa 1700)
Each decorated in polychrome enamels and gilt over clear glaze with a pair of quail, millet, prunus, bamboo and banded hedges, the rims glazed in iron-oxide and the undersides undecorated, one spur mark on bases
5.7/8in. and 6in. (15.1 and 15.2cm.) diameters (2)

Provenance

Richard W. Weatherhead
Richard de la Mare, sold Sotheby's, London, The Richard de la Mare Collection of Kakiemon and Nabeshima Porcelain, 2 June, 1976, lot 16

Exhibited

The Arts Council Gallery, London, "The Oriental Ceramic Society: Loan Exhibition of Japanese Porcelain," 1956.3.28--4.28 [one dish only]

Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
Catalogue of an exhibition of Japanese porcelain, intro. by Soame Jenyns (London: The Oriental Ceramic Society, 1956), cat. no. 95 (not illustrated) [one dish only]
Hayashiya Seizo, Kakiemon/Nabeshima, vol. 6 of Nihon no toji (Japanese ceramics) (Tokyo: Chuo Koronsha, 1972), pl. 141 [the 15.2cm. dish]
_____, Kakiemon, vol. 9 of Nihon no toji (Tokyo: Chuo Koronsha, 1974), pl. 141 [the 15.2cm. dish]

For a similar dish from the Reitlinger Collection in the Ashmolean Museum see John Ayers et al., Porcelain for Palaces: The Fashion for Japan in Europe 1650--1750, exh. cat. (London: Oriental Ceramic Society and British Museum, 1990), no. 360. The saucer is included in a section on the 'Quail' pattern on Japanese and European wares.

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