A Porcelain Lobed Dish

ARITA WARE, KAKIEMON STYLE, EDO PERIOD, 1680S

Details

A Porcelain Lobed Dish
Arita Ware, Kakiemon Style, Edo Period, 1680s
With eight-lobed rim rising from a wide, flat well, painted on the interior in polychrome enamels over transparent glaze with two birds and the 'Three Friends,' pine, bamboo and plum, and with Chinese-style rocks, five spur marks on the shallow recessed base, the rim glazed in iron-oxide
9 5/8in. (24.5cm.) diam.

Provenance

Mayuyama and Co. Ltd., April 1968.

Exhibited

Highlights of the Fellows, Kansas City, Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum, (temporary loan exhibition of Japanese art from the Fellows of the museum), 1968.

The Collectors Eye: Japanese Art Lent by Friends of Japan Society Gallery, New York, Japan Society Gallery, 1989, no. 15.

Lot Essay

For similar dishes see Hayashiya Seizo, Kakiemon/Nabeshima, vol. 6 of Nihon no toji (Japanese Ceramics) (Tokyo: Chuo Koronsha, 1972), pl. 139; ibid, Kakiemon, vol. 9 of Nihon no toji (Tokyo: Chuo Koronsha, 1974), pl. 139; Nagatake Takeshi, Kakiemon, vol. 5 of Famous Ceramics of Japan (Tokyo, New York and San Francisco: Kodansha International, Ltd., 1981), pl. 11; Nagatake Takeshi, Yabe Yoshiaki and Minamoto Hiromichi, eds., Kakiemon no sekai ten; genryu kara gendai made (Exhibition of the world of Kakiemon: from its origins to the present), exh. cat. (Tokyo: Asahi Shinbunsha, 1983). pl. 98; Yoroppa ni kaika shita iroe toji Kakiemon ten/Kakiemon (The flowering of Kakiemon polychrome porcelain in Europe), exh. cat. (Tokyo: Asahi Shimbunsha, 1993), pls. 96-7 (collections of Sakaida Kakiemon and the Idemitsu Museum of Art, Tokyo).

A smaller dish of identical decoration was sold in these Rooms, 19 September, 2000, lot 115.

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