A porcelain dish

Nabeshima Ware, Okawachi official kilns, Hizen (Imari City), Edo period (1680-1720)

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A porcelain dish
Nabeshima Ware, Okawachi official kilns, Hizen (Imari City), Edo period (1680-1720)
The circular dish on raised foot, decorated in underglaze-blue and polychrome enamels with flowering rhododendrons and on the underside with three tasseled coin clusters and a comb-tooth band around the foot
8 1/16 in. (20.5 cm.) 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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