Lot 84
84
THE PROPERTY OF A EUROPEAN LADY
A FINE AND VERY LARGE PAIR OF VERTE-IMARI DISHES, each painted and enamelled with a vase of flowers surrounded by panels of birds, butterflies, prunus and peony on a black ground embellished with iron-red and gilt chrysanthemums, the reverse with flowering branches (one with short hairline, one with two underside rim chips), early 18th Century

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A FINE AND VERY LARGE PAIR OF VERTE-IMARI DISHES, each painted and enamelled with a vase of flowers surrounded by panels of birds, butterflies, prunus and peony on a black ground embellished with iron-red and gilt chrysanthemums, the reverse with flowering branches (one with short hairline, one with two underside rim chips), early 18th Century
54cm. diam. (2)

Lot Essay

This design is inspired by late 17th Century Japanese Imari dishes. Cf.the dish in the Dresden Collection illustrated by Bondy, K'ang Hsi, pl.157; another in the Victoria and Albert Museum, illustrated by J. Ayers, op.cit., VI, fig.204; the smaller dish with very similar design in the Musée Guimet, Paris, illustrated by M. Beurdeley and G. Raindre, op.cit., pl.66, p.64; and an even smaller one in the Mottahedeh Collection, illustrated by Howard and Ayers, op.cit., vol.I, pl.126, p.144

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