A Porcelain Dish

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

細節

A Porcelain Dish
Arita Ware, Kakiemon Style, Edo Period (Late 17th Century)
Decorated in polychrome enamels and gilt over clear glaze with a central dragon roundel surrounded by a long-tailed turtle (minogame), a flying and standing crane, and pine, bamboo and plum, the 'Three Friends' (Shochikubai), separated from the cavetto by a double ring of red enamel and gilding, the scalloped rim glazed in iron-oxide, three spur marks on base
7.5/8in. (19.3cm.) diameter

來源

Richard W. Weatherhead

拍品專文

Variants of the design of this dish were made by the Meissen factory in the mid-1720s, the Chelsea factory in the early-1750s and by the Bow factory. For a rectangular dish made by Bow ca. 1755-56 see Simon Spero, The Bowes Collection of 18th-century English and French Porcelain, exh. cat. (San Francisco: Fine Arts Museums, 1995), pl. 52. See the same catalogue for the Kakiemon prototype matching the Weatherhead dish, pl. 54. For a Chelsea dish and another Kakiemon prototype matching the Weatherhead dish in the Idemitsu Museum of Arts, Tokyo, see Toji no tozai koryu/Inter-influence of Ceramic Art in East and West, ed. Idemitsu Museum of Art (Tokyo: Idemitsu Museum of Art, 1984), pls. 98-99. For another see Daiei hakubutsukan no Nihon jiki/Japanese Porcelain from the British Museum, exh. cat. (Arita: Arita Porcelain Park, 1994), pl. 32.