Fine Japanese Art
Fine Japanese Art
A KAKIEMON DISH, EDO PERIOD, LATE 17TH CENTURY
Auction Closed
November 3, 04:10 PM GMT
Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
A KAKIEMON DISH
EDO PERIOD, LATE 17TH CENTURY
the shallow dish moulded with gingko leaves, decorated in iron-red, green and blue enamels with three boats on a lake, pine trees on its banks
17.5 cm, 6 3/4 in. diam.
The interior of this dish depicts a scene identified by Hayashiya Seizo as Matsushima, one of the three celebrated beauty spots of Japan.
For further examples see:
Soame Jenyns, The Polychrome Wares Associated with the Potters Kakiemon, Transactions of the Oriental Ceramic Soicety 1937-1938, XIV (London, 1938), no. 8a.
William Bowyer Honey, The Ceramic Art of China and Other Countries of the Far East (London, 1945), no. 181b.
Victor Rienaecker, The Richard de la Mare Collection of Japanese Ceramic Wares, Part 1, Apollo (November, 1946), fig. VIII.
Catalogue of an Exhibition of Japanese porcelain, intro. by Soame Jenyns (London, the Oriental Ceramic Society, 1956), cat. no. 134
Soame Jenyns, Japanese Porcelain (London, 1965), pl. A and cover of paper dust jacket.
Hayashiya Seizo, Kakiemon/Nabeshima, vol. 6 of Nihon no toji (Japanese ceramics) (Tokyo, 1972), pl. 143.
Hayashi Seizo, Kakiemon, vol. 9 of Nihon no toji (Tokyo, 1974), pl. 143.
Nishida Hiroko, Kakiemon, vol. 24 of Nihon toji Zenshu (Tokyo, 1977), pl. 56
A similar example sold in these rooms 14th May 2019, lot 98.