EDO PERIOD (EARLY 18TH CENTURY)

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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 rim with panels of birds and courtesans on a geometric pattern, the reverse with a band of insects, gilt rim
Each approx. 91/8in. (23.2cm.) diam. (2)

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Lot Essay

For a similar examples see Ashmolean Museum Eastern Ceramics, and other Works of Art from the Collection of Gerald Reitlinger (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.

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