A Leaf-Shaped Porcelain Dish

OKAWACHI, NABESHIMA WARE, EDO PERIOD (LATE 17TH CENTURY)

Details

A Leaf-Shaped Porcelain Dish
Okawachi, Nabeshima Ware, Edo Period (Late 17th Century)
Decorated with reeds in cobalt blue under clear glaze or carved in sunken relief and covered by iron-oxide glaze and the rim applied with celadon glaze, the underside decorated in underglaze cobalt blue with two flower sprays and a pattern of 'comb teeth' around the raised foot
6.3/8in. (15.7cm.) diameter; 1in. (3.3cm.) high

Provenance

Richard W. Weatherhead

Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
Imaizumi Motosuke, Nabeshima to Matsugatani (Tokyo: Yuzankaku, 1969), no. 30.

For two nearly identical dishes see Hayashiya Seizo, Kakiemon/Nabeshima, vol. 6 of Nihon no toji (Japanese ceramics) (Tokyo: Chuo Koronsha, 1972), pls. 287-88; Nagatake Takeshi, ed., Ko-Imari no subete (All of Imari) (Fukuoka: Nishi Nihon Shimbunsha, 1978), p. 91.

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