Name: AN EARLY ENAMELLED DISH
Brand: EDO PERIOD (MID - LATE 17TH CENTURY)
Price: 18000.00 GBP
Availability: SoldOut

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An Early Enamelled Dish
Edo period (mid - late 17th century)
Decorated in iron-red, blue, green, yellow and black enamels in Chinese Kraak style with a central roundel enclosing a flower vase containing sprays of chrysanthemum framed by a scalloped octagon, the eight radiating border panels at the rim alternately enclosing chrysanthemums and auspicious objects against karakusa divided by narrow panels with tassels, the reverse with karakusa and flowers, some circumferential lines in underglaze blue to the front and the reverse
31.8cm. diam.

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The decoration derived from Chinese Kraak porcelain but most of Chinese pieces are in underglaze blue. Enamelling was an inventive Japanese addition to the kraak style.

For similar examples, see:
Christiaan J.A. Jorg, Fine and Curious, Japanese Export Porcelain in Dutch Collections, (Amsterdam, 2003), p.54, no.35.
Kurita Hideo, Kurita Collection, (Tokyo, 1967), p.66-67, no.27. (Kurita Museum)
Kurita Hideo, Imari, (Tokyo, 1975), p. 100-101, no. 37
Nomura Taizo, Hachi, sara, nihon 8,000 nen no bi no utsuwa [8,000 Years of Japanese Pottery], (Osaka, 1973), no. 113
Nihon Kanko Bunka Kenkyujo ed., Umi o watatta Nihon no yakimono [Japanese ceramics that crossed the ocean], (Tokyo, 1985), p. 21
Nagatake Takeshi, Imari, vol. 19 of Toji taikei [A compendium of ceramics], (Tokyo, 1973), pl.52.

For examples with similar kraak-style borders, see:
Christiaan J.A. Jorg, Fine and Curious, Japanese Export Porcelain in Dutch Collections, (Amsterdam, 2003), p.53-54, no.34. (Groninger Museum, Groningen)
John Ayers, Oliver Impey, et al., Porcelain for Palaces: The Fashion for Japan in Europe 1650-1750, (London, 1990), p.124, no.85. (British Museum)
Oliver Impey, Japanese Export Porcelain – Catalogue of The Collection of The Ashmolean Museum Oxford, (Amsterdam, 2002), p. 72, no. 57. (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford)
Nishida Hiroko and Ohashi Koji eds, Kakiemon ten: Yoroppa ni kaikashita iroe jiki [Kakiemon exhibition: Polychrome overglaze enamel decorated ware that flourished in Europe], (Fukuoka, 1993), pl.15.
Barbara Brennan Ford and Oliver Impey, Japanese Art from the Gerry Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, (New York, 1989), p.76, pl.45
http://www.kurita.or.jp/imari/catalog/index.htm (Kurita Museum, ref. no. 78)

For examples with similar centre designs, see:
Christiaan J.A. Jorg, Fine and Curious, Japanese Export Porcelain in Dutch Collections, (Amsterdam, 2003), p.54, no.36.
Tokyo National Museum, Development of Kakiemon Type Enameled Porcelain, exhibition catalogue, (Tokyo, 1979), p.2, no.7. (Tokyo National Museum)
Kurita Hideo, Imari, Nabeshima, (Ashikaga, 1985), p.85, no.72. (Kurita Museum)
http://www.kurita.or.jp/imari/catalog/index.htm (Kurita Museum, ref. no. 79)