Lot Essay
This design was often copied in this form by European factories, such as Meissen.
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EDO PERIOD (LATE 17TH CENTURY)
Details
A Kakiemon dish
Edo Period (late 17th Century)
The moulded foliate-rimmed shallow dish decorated in iron-red, yellow, green, blue and black enamels with a bird perched on a bowing length of bamboo amongst pine and plum blossom issuing from brushwork fences, another bird swooping down to one side, chocolate rim, minor restoration to rim
7in. (19cm.) diam.
Edo Period (late 17th Century)
The moulded foliate-rimmed shallow dish decorated in iron-red, yellow, green, blue and black enamels with a bird perched on a bowing length of bamboo amongst pine and plum blossom issuing from brushwork fences, another bird swooping down to one side, chocolate rim, minor restoration to rim
7in. (19cm.) diam.
Provenance
Sherborne Castle
Literature
A similar example from Sherborne Castle is illustrated in Mark Hinton and Oliver Impey, Flowers of Fire: Kakiemon Porcelain from the English Country House, (1989), pl. 28, p. 53