A Porcelain Dish

ARITA WARE, KAKIEMON STYLE, EDO PERIOD (LATE 17TH CENTURY)

Details

A Porcelain Dish
Arita Ware, Kakiemon Style, Edo Period (Late 17th Century)
Moulded in eight lobes and painted in polychrome enamels and gilt over clear glaze with birds, banded hedges and 'The Three Friends' (Shochikubai), pine, bamboo and plum, the rim glazed in iron-oxide, underside undecorated, five spur marks on base
8in. (21.5cm.) diameter

Provenance

Richard W. Weatherhead

Lot Essay

For matching dishes see Soame Jenyns, Japanese Porcelain (London: Faber and Faber, Ltd., 1965), no. 77A; Daiei hakubutsukan no Nihon jiki/Japanese Porcelain from the British Museum, exh. cat. (Arita: Arita Porcelain Park, 1994), pl. 30. A nearly identical dish from the de la Mare collection was sold Sotheby's, London, The Richard de la Mare Collection of Kakiemon and Nabeshima Porcelain, 2 June, 1976, lot 24. Matching dishes from the collection of Simon Wingfield Digby, Esq., removed from Sherborne Castle, Dorset, England, were sold Christie's, London, 6 June, 1990, lots 3, 4, 6, 7, 8.

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