Edo period (mid-late 17th century)

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Two Early Arita Dishes
Edo period (mid-late 17th century)
The first lobed and moulded shallow dish decorated in underglaze blue, red enamel and gilt with a central roundel depicting two square shikishi [poem cards], one depicting plum blossom in a flower vase on a table, bordered by various stylised auspicious characters in relief, the reverse with morning glory, the base with underglaze blue fuku mark; the second dish with narrow rim, decorated in underglaze blue with a bird in branch of morning glory bordered by a band of lappets in the form of ruyi heads, the reverse with tendril, the mark of Chokichidani kiln
21.8 cm. and 21.5 cm. diam.

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Lot Essay

For a dish with similar design to the first, see Japan Society, New York, The Burghley Porcelains: An Exhibition from the Burghley House Collection and Based on the 1688 Inventory and 1690 Devonshire Schedule, (New York, 1986), p. 106.

For a discussion of this design see Nicole Coolidge Rousmaniere, Acquisition in Focus, The Shibata gift of Japanese Porcelain to the British Museum, Apollo, March 1998, p. 25, illustrated p. 26, pl. 6.

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