Lot 89
Lot 89
THE SOAME JENYNS COLLECTION OF JAPANESE AND CHINESE ART
TWO CHINESE PORCELAIN DISHES AND A JAPANESE ARITA DISH

17TH CENTURY, THE SHONZHI-STYLE DISH CHONGZHEN PERIOD (LATE 17TH CENTURY), THE ARITA DISH EDO PERIOD (LATE 17TH-18TH CENTURY)

Price Realised GBP 2,375
Estimate
GBP 1,200 - GBP 1,500
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TWO CHINESE PORCELAIN DISHES AND A JAPANESE ARITA DISH

17TH CENTURY, THE SHONZHI-STYLE DISH CHONGZHEN PERIOD (LATE 17TH CENTURY), THE ARITA DISH EDO PERIOD (LATE 17TH-18TH CENTURY)

Price Realised GBP 2,375
Price Realised GBP 2,375
Details
Comprising an octagonal Chinese dish decorated in iron-red and green enamels with a bird standing in a lotus pond surrounded by panels of fish and shellfish; a Shonzhi-style dish with raised shaped rim decorated in underglaze blue and red and green enamels with a central rabbit surrounded by panels of crane on various decorative grounds; and an Arita dish modelled with raised rim and decorated in underglaze blue, green and red enamels with peonies and leaves, the base with an apocryphal Chenghua mark
The largest, 8¼ in. (21 cm. diam.)


Provenance
Collection of the late Soame Jenyns (1904-1976), then by descent within the family.
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Lot Essay

A similar example of the Arita dish decorated with peonies and leaves is illustrated in Oliver Imepy, Japanese Export Porcelain: Catalogue of the Collection of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, (Amsterdam, 2002), plate no. 301, p. 189.

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