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A KO-KUTANI SMALL DISH
EDO PERIOD (18TH CENTURY)
The small barbed-rim dish set on a short ring foot decorated in underglaze blue and enamels of red, yellow, green and aubergine with a central panel of a large artemesia leaf and scroll surrounded by a band composed of alternating lappet panels of flowers, waves and scrolls, the underside painted in underglaze blue with stylized florets and lines; together with a Nabeshima style blue and white dish set on a high ring foot painted in the well with lillies, the underside painted with three large groups of conjoined 'cash' symbols and the high foot decorated with a comb pattern and an Imari bowl decorated in the well with a square panel of a nightingale, the moon and a flowering tree within a band of kikko-hanabishi repeated on the exterior- 5 7/8, 7 3/4 and 6 1/2 in. (15, 19.7 and 16.5 cm.) diameters (3)
EDO PERIOD (18TH CENTURY)
The small barbed-rim dish set on a short ring foot decorated in underglaze blue and enamels of red, yellow, green and aubergine with a central panel of a large artemesia leaf and scroll surrounded by a band composed of alternating lappet panels of flowers, waves and scrolls, the underside painted in underglaze blue with stylized florets and lines; together with a Nabeshima style blue and white dish set on a high ring foot painted in the well with lillies, the underside painted with three large groups of conjoined 'cash' symbols and the high foot decorated with a comb pattern and an Imari bowl decorated in the well with a square panel of a nightingale, the moon and a flowering tree within a band of kikko-hanabishi repeated on the exterior- 5 7/8, 7 3/4 and 6 1/2 in. (15, 19.7 and 16.5 cm.) diameters (3)