EDO PERIOD (EARLY 18TH CENTURY)

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A Japanese Imari charger
Edo Period (Early 18th Century)
Decorated with a central flower-pot with peony and plum within clouds, surrounded by similar flower-pots alternated by a pavilion besides the 'Three Friends' bamboo, pine and prunus, the reverse with three demi flower-heads amongst scrolling chrysanthemum, slight rubbing to the gilt
54.2 cm. diam.

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Lot Essay

The unusual design may possibly have followed a Delft design which in turn had interpreted a Japanese design, for example that of the Delft wares of Pieter Adriaenz Kocks. A Japanese Imari vase and cover with a similar design was sold in our London Rooms, 6 April 1998, lot 199.

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