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    Collection of Japanese Porcelain and Japanese & Korean Art

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    15 September 1999

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    • An Octagonal Porcelain Dish
    Lot 23

    An Octagonal Porcelain Dish

    ARITA WARE, EDO PERIOD (CIRCA 1700)

    Price realised

    USD 12,650

    Estimate

    USD 6,000 - USD 8,000

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    An Octagonal Porcelain Dish
    Arita Ware, Edo Period (Circa 1700)
    Decorated in polychrome enamels and gilt over clear glaze with a pair of quail, millet and autumn flowers within a formal floral border on the extended edge, the rim glazed in iron-oxide, the underside covered by clear glaze, two spur marks on base
    7.3/8in. (18.8cm.) diameter

    Provenance

    Richard W. Weatherhead
    Richard de la Mare, sold Sotheby's, London, The Richard de la Mare Collection of Kakiemon and Nabeshima Porcelain, 2 June, 1976, lot 23

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    Lot Essay

    For a matching dish of quail, millet and flowers in the Ashmolean Museum see John Ayers et al., Porcelain for Palaces: The Fashion for Japan in Europe 1650--1750, exh. cat. (London: Oriental Ceramic Society and British Museum, 1990), pl. 359. See also in the same catalogue a Chelsea factory version of the design known as the 'Partridge pattern,' pl. 368. For other Arita dishes see Kakiemon, Imari, Nabeshima, exh. cat. (Tokyo: The Japan Ceramic Society, 1959), no. 18; Soame Jenyns, Japanese Porcelain (London: Faber and Faber, Ltd., 1965), no. 76B; Nagatake Takeshi, Kakiemon, vol. 5 of Famous Ceramics of Japan (Tokyo, New York and San Francisco: Kodansha International, Ltd., 1981), pl. 15 (coll. Idemitsu Museum of Art); Daiei hakubutsukan no Nihon jiki/Japanese Porcelain from the British Museum, exh. cat. (Arita: Arita Porcelain Park, 1994), pl. 29.

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