Name: A RARE KAKIEMON DISH
Brand: EDO PERIOD (LATE 17TH - EARLY 18TH CENTURY)
Price: 2600.00 GBP
Availability: SoldOut

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A Rare Kakiemon Dish
Edo period (late 17th - early 18th century)
In the form of a shallow European form bowl with everted and foliated rim, decorated in iron-red, blue, green, yellow and black enamels and gilt, the interior with two ho-o birds forming a roundel, the rim with two dragons amongst waves and a sacred pearl, chocolate rim
22.1cm. diam.

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No other example is known and this rare piece was probably made by a special order as a part of European dinner service.
However, the dragon design was later adopted by Meissen and Chelsea. For these examples see:
Idemitsu Museum of Arts, Toji no tozai koryu [Inter-Influence of Ceramic Art in East and West], (Tokyo, 1984), p.32, no.101 (Meissen dish in the Idemitsu Museum of Arts, Tokyo)
John Ayers, Oliver Impey, et al., Porcelain for Palaces: The Fashion for Japan in Europe 1650-1750, (London, 1990), p.278, no.352 (Chelsea cup and saucer in the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum, London)