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A Pair of Japanese Kakiemon Style Dishes.
Of circular form, decorated in polychrome enamels and gilt in the Kakiemon style over a clear glaze, painted with two plump quail among millet, prunus, bamboo and banded hedges, the rim glazed in iron-oxide, the base glazed and with one spur mark.
Period: Edo Period, circa 1700.
Footnote: For an almost identical design, also with one spur mark see: The Arts Council Gallery, London, "The Oriental Ceramic Society: Loan Exhibition of Japanese Porcelain," 1956.3.28–4.28. These were then sold at Sotheby's, London, in: The Richard de la Mare Collection of Kakiemon and Nabeshima Porcelain, 2 June, 1976, lot 16.Provenance: Richard W. Weatherhead, and published in the Catalogue of an exhibition of Japanese porcelain, introduction by Soame Jenyns (London: The Oriental Ceramic Society, 1956), cat. no. 95 (not illustrated). Published also in Hayashiya Seizo, Kakiemon/Nabeshima, vol. 6 of& Nihon no toji (Japanese ceramics) (Tokyo: Chuo Koronsha, 1972), pl. 141 [the 15.2cm. dish] published Kakiemon, vol. 9 of Nihon no toji (Tokyo: Chuo Koronsha, 1974), pl. 141 [the 15.2cm. dish].
Dimensions
Diameter: 15‑19 cm; 6-7 ½ insStock number
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