18TH AND 19TH CENTURY

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A set of five Arita Namban saucers and a 'black ship' bowl
18th and 19th Century
The saucer enamelled with a central roundel enclosing the 'VOC A' monogram, encircled by a radiating scene of three Dutchmen in a continuous Chinese fenced garden, one wearing a cape and watching another holding a parrot, the reverse with a karakusa scroll in underglaze-blue, 12 cm. diam.; and an Imari 'black ship' bowl, decorated with three-masters alternated by pairs of standing Dutchmen, eight character mark to the base Gorodayu Go Shonzui zo, two fine hairline cracks, 20 cm. diam. (6)

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Lot Essay

For a bowl and cover with a similar decoration as the saucers but without the monogram, see The preliminary Event for the World Ceramics Exposition Shibata Collection, Part-4, The Establishment and Transformation of the Ko-Imari style, The Kyushu Museum, Saga Prefecture, 1995, p. 169, pl. 330-31.

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