A Porcelain Dish

NABESHIMA WARE, EDO PERIOD (EARLY 18TH CENTURY)

細節

A Porcelain Dish
Nabeshima Ware, Edo Period (Early 18th Century)
Set on a high circular foot and designed on the interior with seven jars on a background of waves, the outlines of the jars, the guan-type crackled 'glazes' of two of the jars, fret and cloud pattern of the lower jar and the waves rendered in underglaze cobalt-blue and two jars applied with celadon glaze, the underside of the dish painted in underglaze-blue with three tasseled coin clusters and the foot with a 'comb-tooth' band, foot rim unglazed
7.15/16in. (20.2cm.) diameter

拍品專文

For two related dishes designed with five jars and elements of the decoration of this dish see Asahi Shimbun, ed., Les Cadeaux au Shogun: Porcelaine Precieuse des Seigneurs de Nabeshima, exh. cat. (Tokyo: Asahi Shimbunsha, 1997), pls. 87-88.

Two dishes with five jars were sold in these Rooms, 31 October, 1995, lot 371 and 17 September, 1997, lot 241.