A Rare Large Kakiemon Dish
Fuku mark, Edo period (late 17th century)
The dish with foliated rim decorated in underglaze blue with the design with Chinese figures standing beside pine, bamboo and plum on rocky outcrops with a fisherman in a boat on a river, chocolate rim
35.5cm. diam.

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This design was popular in The Netherlands and copied by Amstel porcelain and Delft, see C.J.A. Jorge, Porcelain and the Dutch China Trade, (The Hague, 1982), p.143.

For similar examples in the collections of Twickel Castle in Delden, Kassel in Germany and the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, see:
Christiaan J.A. Jorg, Fine and Curious, Japanese Export Porcelain in Dutch Collections, (Amsterdam, 2003), p.143, no.157. (Twickel Castle)
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.120, 121. (Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel)
John Ayers, Oliver Impey, et al., Porcelain for Palaces: The Fashion for Japan in Europe, 1650-1750 (London, 1990), p.158, no.134.
Oliver Impey, Japanese Export Porcelain – Catalogue of The Collection of The Ashmolean Museum Oxford, (Amsterdam, 2002), p.116, no.143.(Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Reitlinger Gift 1978.716, formerly in the collection of the Duchess of Portland at Welbeck Abbey)