Lot Essay
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THE FIRST CIRCA 1700, THE SECOND CIRCA 1720
Details
An Imari saucer and plate
The first circa 1700, the second circa 1720
The saucer painted in green, iron-red, aubergine, black and gilt enamels, the central roundel enclosing a peony stem issuing from rockwork, surrounded by petal-shaped panels enclosing alternately pine and a conch shell reserved on a wheel-pattern ground and a quatrefoil cartouche of a bird on a wave-pattern ground; and a plate decorated in gilt with a central ho-o bird among paulownia, repeated on the everted rim, rim crack restoration
14 and 21.6 cm. diam. (2)
The first circa 1700, the second circa 1720
The saucer painted in green, iron-red, aubergine, black and gilt enamels, the central roundel enclosing a peony stem issuing from rockwork, surrounded by petal-shaped panels enclosing alternately pine and a conch shell reserved on a wheel-pattern ground and a quatrefoil cartouche of a bird on a wave-pattern ground; and a plate decorated in gilt with a central ho-o bird among paulownia, repeated on the everted rim, rim crack restoration
14 and 21.6 cm. diam. (2)
Exhibited
Ko-Imari porcelain from the Collection of Oliver Impey, Barry Davies Oriental Art, London, 1997, no. 130 & 134.
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