A pair of Imari dishes

EDO PERIOD (EARLY 18TH CENTURY)

细节

A pair of Imari dishes
Edo Period (early 18th Century)
Decorated in iron-red, green, aubergine and black enamels and gilt on underglaze blue, with a courtesan, her attendant holding a parasol and three strutting birds to the centre, surrounded by a band of flowerheads, the everted rim with panels of birds and courtesans on a geometric pattern, the reverse with a band of insects, gilt rim
Each approx. 9.1/8in. (23.3cm.) diam. (2)

出版

For similar examples see Ashmolean Museum Eastern Ceramics and other works of art from the Gerald Reitlinger collection (Oxford, 1981), p.86, pl. 232; Chuokoronsha Nihon no toji [Japanese ceramics], vol. 8, Ko-Imari (Tokyo, 1975), p. 107, pl.212 and Hong Kong Museum of Art, Interaction in Ceramics, Oriental Porcelain and Delftware (Hong Kong, 1984), p. 130, pl.86

拍品专文

This design is after one by the Dutch painter Cornelius Pronk to a commission from the Dutch East India Company. The survived original drawing can be found in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam and was of a Chinese lady and her attendant, as opposed to the Japanese lady seen in this exampel. The original design is known to have been sent from Batavia to Deshima in 1736 as well as to China in order to be copied onto porcelain. The costs being too high, there are no records of this ever having been done in Japan. However this Japanese version with a Japanese courtesan have been found on plates and dishes only, and it is believed that they were undoubtedly private orders, placed by the Company staff in Dejima