EDO PERIOD (LATE 17TH CENTURY)

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A Kakiemon dish
Edo Period (Late 17th Century)
The moulded foliate dish decorated in iron-red, green, yellow, blue and black enamels with a bird swooping down to branches of pine, plum and bamboo bordered by brushwork fences, another bird perched on a bamboo branch, chocolate rim, the base with spurmarks and Johaneum mark of the Augustus the Strong Collection N=89
8.5in. (21.5cm.) diam.

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Please note the illustration for lot 131 is incorrectly numbered in the catalogue, as lot 131 beneath the Kakiemon dish.

Lot Essay

A similar example is illustrated in Mark Hinton and Oliver Impey, Flowers of Fire: Kakiemon Porcelain from the English Country House, (London, 1989), pl. 28, p. 53

This design was often copied in this form by European factories, such as Meissen. For a Meissen example of the design see Masako Shono, Japanisches Aritaporzellan im sogenannten Kakiemonstil als Vorbild fur die Meissener Porzellanmanifaktur, (Munchen, 1973), pl. 70

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