EDO PERIOD (18TH CENTURY)

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A Nabeshima Dish
Edo period (18th century)
Circular on a raised foot, decorated in underglaze-blue and colored enamels with flowering rhododendrons and on the underside with three tasseled coin clusters and a 'comb-tooth' band around the foot
8 1/16in. (20.5cm.) diameter

Lot Essay

For other dishes with the rhododendron design see Imaizumi Motosuke, Nabeshima, volume 1 of Famous Ceramics of Japan (Kodansha International: Tokyo, 1981), pl. 30; Imaizumi Motosuke, Nabeshima, volume 21 of Nihon toji taikei (Heibonsha: Tokyo, 1990), pl. 48.

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