Details
An Arita bowl
painted to the exterior in coloured enamels and gilt with European merchants in conversation, the reverse with a Namban ship with its mast unfurled, the interior with a central flowerspray -- 4¾in. (12½cm.) diam, circa 1700, (hairline crack.)
See Colour Plate 13.
painted to the exterior in coloured enamels and gilt with European merchants in conversation, the reverse with a Namban ship with its mast unfurled, the interior with a central flowerspray -- 4¾in. (12½cm.) diam, circa 1700, (hairline crack.)
See Colour Plate 13.