A FOLIATE-RIMMED KAKIEMON STYLE UNDERGLAZE BLUE DISH

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A FOLIATE-RIMMED KAKIEMON STYLE UNDERGLAZE BLUE DISH
Decorated in iron-red, green and yellow enamels and gilt, depicting a ho-o bird on rockwork beneath a plum tree, another above bamboo and brushwood fences, the reverse with scrolling foliage, mark probably Toku, chocolate rim, (slight old damage), late 18th century
34cm. diam.

Lot Essay

This seems to be a previously unrecorded prototype for the Chelsea design dating from 1750-1752. For an example of this, see Hugo Morley- Fletcher, Techniques of the World's Great Masters of Pottery and Ceramics, p. 112

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