A Pair of Decagonal Porcelain Bowls

ARITA WARE, EDO PERIOD (CIRCA 1700), KIN (GOLD) MARK WITHIN DOUBLE-SQUARE AND CIRCLE IN UNDERGLAZE-BLUE ON BASE

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A Pair of Decagonal Porcelain Bowls
Arita Ware, Edo Period (Circa 1700), Kin (Gold) Mark within Double-Square and Circle in Underglaze-Blue on Base
Each painted in cobalt blue under clear glaze on five of the exterior facets with a dragon, chrysanthemums, two figures under a parasol, phoenix and lotus which are repeated on the opposite facets of the bowl, each bowl decorated in the well with a ten-sided landscape panel of a pavilion and bridge, lake, rocks and plum and below the rim with a band of overlapping leaves, the petal-shaped rim glazed in iron-oxide
6.5/8in. (16.8cm.) diameters; 3in. (8.2cm.) high (2)

Provenance

Richard W. Weatherhead

Lot Essay

For another decagonal bowl see Friedrich Reichel, Early Japanese Porcelain: Arita Porcelain in the Dresden Collection (London: Orbis Publishing, Ltd., 1981), pl. 3. For a related octagonal bowl 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), pl. 131.

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