Lot 817
817
THE PROPERTY OF A LADY
A DECAGONAL FOLIATE KAKIEMON DISH, decorated in iron-red, yellow, blue and black enamels with gilt depicting a tiger beneath a flowering prunus tree emerging from behind rocks, the slightly everted rim with a band of scrolling foliage and flowerheads, chocolate rim (slight chips to the rim), late 17th century

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A DECAGONAL FOLIATE KAKIEMON DISH, decorated in iron-red, yellow, blue and black enamels with gilt depicting a tiger beneath a flowering prunus tree emerging from behind rocks, the slightly everted rim with a band of scrolling foliage and flowerheads, chocolate rim (slight chips to the rim), late 17th century
24.3cm. diam.

Lot Essay

Another, smaller dish, is in the collection of Burghley House and illustrated in The Burghley Porcelains (Japan Society, New York 1986), no. 101
Two others are illustrated in Kakiemon no sekai, Genryu kara gendai made (Asahi Shimbun, Tokyo 1983), p. 86

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