A Porcelain Lobed Dish
A Porcelain Lobed Dish

ARITA WARE, KAKIEMON STYLE, EDO PERIOD (1670-90)

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A Porcelain Lobed Dish
Arita Ware, Kakiemon Style, Edo Period (1670-90)
With eight-lobed rim rising from a wide, flat well, painted in polychrome enamels with two birds and the 'Three Friends,' pine, bamboo and plum, and with hollow rocks, three spur marks on shallow recessed base, rim glazed in iron-oxide
7½in. (19cm.) diameter

Lot Essay

For other dishes see Hayashiya Seizo, Kakiemon/Nabeshima, vol. 6 of Nihon no toji (Japanese ceramics) (Tokyo: Chuo Koronsha, 1972), pl. 139; ibid, Kakiemon, vol. 9 of Nihon no toji (Tokyo: Chuo Koronsha, 1974), pl. 139; Nagatake Takeshi, Kakiemon, vol. 5 of Famous Ceramics of Japan (Tokyo, New York and San Francisco: Kodansha International, Ltd., 1981), pl. 11; Nagatake Takeshi, Yabe Yoshiaki and Minamoto Hiromichi, eds., Kakiemon no sekai ten: genryu kara gendai made (Exhibition of the world of Kakiemon: from its origins to the present), exh. cat. (Tokyo: Asahi Shimbunsha, 1983), pl. 98; Yoroppa ni kaika shita iroe toji Kakiemon ten/Kakiemon (the flowering of Kakiemon polychrome porcelain in Europe), exh. cat. (Tokyo: Asahi Shimbunsha, 1993), pls. 96-7 (collections of Sakaida Kakiemon and the Idemitsu Museum of Art, Tokyo).

A related dish with banded hedges in place of the rocks was sold in these Rooms, 15 September, 1999, An Important Collection of Japanese Porcelain, Japanese and Korean Art, lot 25.

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