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A Japanese blue and white kakiemon style lobed dish.

Edo period (late 17th century).

Decorated in the centre with two figures or scholars on a riverbank gazing at a waterfall from beneath a pine tree.

The wide border decorated with a continuous scene of two tigers on rockwork amidst bamboo, blossoming prunus and other flowering plants.

The petalled rim glazed brown, the reverse decorated with a scroll of karakusa and a cursive fuku mark ‘happiness’ to the base.

There is a dish of identical design illustrated in Jörg, Christiaan, ‘Fine and Curious, Japanese Export Porcelain in Dutch Collections’, p.147, no.162.

Another slightly larger example is illustrated in ‘Porcelain for Palaces: The Fashion for Japan in Europe 1650-1750’, p. 158, no. 133, formerly in the collection of the Duchess of Portland.

Dimensions

diameter: 27 cm.

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Stock number

U729
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