Pursuit of an Ideal: Fine Japanese Works of Art
Pursuit of an Ideal: Fine Japanese Works of Art
A Kakiemon dish | Edo period, early 18th century
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November 5, 02:07 PM GMT
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6,000 - 8,000 GBP
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A Kakiemon dish
Edo period, early 18th century
the shallow dish with wide rim, decorated iron red, green yellow and black enamels and underglaze blue, with two plump quail beneath the boughing stems of chrysanthemum sprays, pine and grasses
For a discussion on the quail pattern, see John Ayres, Oliver Impey and J.V.G. Mallet, Porcelain for Palaces: The Fashion for Japan in Europe, 1650-1750, (London, 1990), pg. 296-303.
For a similarly decorated dish, see Japan House Gallery, & Burghley House Preservation Trust, The Burghley Porcelains: An Exhiibition from the Burghley House Collection and based on the 1688 Inventory and 1690 Devonshire Schedule, (New York, 1986), pg. 209, no. 82.
For a further example in the Reitlinger Collection at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, accession number EA1978.569, go to: