A Pair of Arita Mukozuke [Food Dish] and a Kakiemon style Mukozuke

EDO PERIOD (LATE 17TH CENTURY)

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A Pair of Arita Mukozuke [Food Dish] and a Kakiemon style Mukozuke
Edo period (late 17th century)
Each decorated in underglaze blue, the first of cherry blossom flower form, with karahana design, fuku mark; the second with foliate rim with pine trees and two stylised ships amongst waves, the rim with peony and foliage, the reverse with karakusa, cursive fuku mark
Each 10cm. and 14cm. diam. respectively

Provenance

Margaret, Duchess of Portland, Welbeck Abbey

Literature

The second, M. Hinton, O. Impey, Kakiemon Porcelain from the English Country House (Oxford and London, 1989), p. 61, pl. 40

Lot Essay

The second is a blue and white version of a design known on a Kakiemon dish, formerly in the collection of Richard de la Mare and illustrated Soame Jenyns, Japanese Porcelain, (London 1965), col. pl. A.
Most of the ceramics purchased by Margaret, the second Duchess of Portland (1714-1785), were mainly blue and white. The collections were sold in 1786 where many pieces that were certainly Kakiemon described in the catalogue as "brown-edge" pieces such as the above.

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