EDO PERIOD (THE FIRST, 18TH CENTURY, THE SECOND, LATE 17TH CENTURY)
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A Square Porcelain Dish With Cut Corners and a Deep Bell-Shaped Porcelain Bowl
Edo period (the first, 18th century, the second, late 17th century)
Both painted in underglaze-cobalt; the first with frolicking horses, a pavilion in a mountainous landscape and distant sailboats, the rim glazed in brown iron-oxide, the underside decorated with precious emblems and the foot banded with concentric rings; apocryphal Chinese reign marks and four spur marks; the second thinly potted standing on a low ring foot and rising steeply to a barbed rim and painted on the exterior with birds, rocks and foliage and with persimmons and a single bird on a rock in the interior, blue bands around the foot
7¼ (18.3) square; 5½in. (14cm.) diameter
Edo period (the first, 18th century, the second, late 17th century)
Both painted in underglaze-cobalt; the first with frolicking horses, a pavilion in a mountainous landscape and distant sailboats, the rim glazed in brown iron-oxide, the underside decorated with precious emblems and the foot banded with concentric rings; apocryphal Chinese reign marks and four spur marks; the second thinly potted standing on a low ring foot and rising steeply to a barbed rim and painted on the exterior with birds, rocks and foliage and with persimmons and a single bird on a rock in the interior, blue bands around the foot
7¼ (18.3) square; 5½in. (14cm.) diameter