Lot Essay
For another cup with the decoration here, see Kudo Yoshiro, Nabeshima (Tokyo: Ribun Shuppan, 2005), pl. 229.
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EDO PERIOD (LATE 17TH-EARLY 18TH CENTURY)
Details
A PORCELAIN WINE CUP, NABESHIMA WARE, OKAWACHI, HIZEN PROVINCE
EDO PERIOD (LATE 17TH-EARLY 18TH CENTURY)
Rising from short, circular foot and flaring to the wide rim, decorated with a scrolling flowers in enamels of red, yellow and turquoise over the colorless glaze and in cobalt pigment under the glaze above four spaced roundels of underglaze blue above a double ring in blue above the foot, the interior applied with the colorless glaze
2 ¾ in. (7 cm) high
EDO PERIOD (LATE 17TH-EARLY 18TH CENTURY)
Rising from short, circular foot and flaring to the wide rim, decorated with a scrolling flowers in enamels of red, yellow and turquoise over the colorless glaze and in cobalt pigment under the glaze above four spaced roundels of underglaze blue above a double ring in blue above the foot, the interior applied with the colorless glaze
2 ¾ in. (7 cm) high
Literature
Arakawa Masaaki, ed., Nabeshima: Kumio Yuji korekushon / Nabeshima: Yuji Kamio Collection (Tokyo: Kumio Yuji, 2014), pl. 12.
Exhibited
Hosomi Museum, Kyoto, “Kumio Yuji korekushon Sengai to Nabeshima: Bi to mukiao, bi to tanoshimu / The Paintings of Sengai and Nabeshima Ceramics from the Yuji Kamio Collection: Coming Face to Face with Beauty,” 2014.10.4-12.14.
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