A Porcelain Footed Dish

OKAWACHI, NABESHIMA WARE, EDO PERIOD (18TH CENTURY)

Details

A Porcelain Footed Dish
Okawachi, Nabeshima Ware, Edo Period (18th Century)
Decorated with ribbonate flowerheads in reserve against a pale underglaze-blue ground and in red, yellow and green enamels, probably later added over the clear glaze, the underside also painted below the rim with an irregular band of pale blue matching the interior and with a triple-lotus arabesque in underglaze-blue of varying intensity, the high foot painted with a 'comb-tooth' band in underglaze-blue
7in. (19.8cm.) diameter; 1in. (4.5cm.) high

Provenance

Richard W. Weatherhead

Lot Essay

For other Nabeshima seven-sun (circa 21cm.) dishes with the same design (without overglaze enamels) and underglaze-blue background see Hayashiya Seizo, Kakiemon/Nabeshima, vol. 6 of Nihon no toji (Japanese ceramics) (Tokyo: Chuo Koronsha, 1972), pl. 388; Asahi Shimbunsha, ed., Iro Nabeshima (Polychrome Nabeshima) (Tokyo: Asahi Shimbunsha, 1965), pl. 28; Iro Nabeshima: Nihon jiki no seika, Hizen Nabeshima-han goyogama no meiki (Polychrome Nabeshima: The flowering of Japanese porcelain, famous pieces from the kiln of the Hizen Nabeshima clan) (Osaka: Asahi Shimbunsha, 1975), unnumbered color plate (coll. Imaemon Kotoji Sankokan); Asahi Shimbun, ed., Les Cadeaux au Shogun: Porcelaine Precieuse des Seigneurs de Nabeshima, exh. cat. (Tokyo: Asahi Shimbunsha, 1997), pl. 99.

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