Japanese Blue and White wares 17th Century - Dishes - Page 1

Object 2011910

Dish

Japan

1660-1690

Height 68 mm (2.68 inch), diameter of rim 408 mm (16.06 inch), diameter of footring 201 mm (7.91 inch), weight 2,365 grams (83.42 ounce (oz.))

Dish on footring, flat rim. Five spur-marks in a X-pattern on the base. Decorated in underglaze blue with birds and a flowering plant growing from rockwork in a circular cartouche. The sides and rim in Chinese kraak style with six equal wide panels (fuyõ-de) outlined with two lines each filled with flowering plants and two birds. The reverse is undecorated.

This type of border with six equal panels generally containing plants is best known from the plates with the East India Company monogram in a landscape adapted to incorporate. Sometimes these equal panels are outlined with two lines as on K'ang Hsi porcelain. (Lunsingh Scheurleer 1971, p.50)

For an identically decorated dish, please see;

Condition: Firing flaws to the base and rim and a hairline to the rim.

Reference:

Lunsingh Scheurleer 1971, p. 50 & cat. 24

Kyushu 1990/1, cat. 62 & cat. 63

Price: € 999 Currency Converter

Previously sold as object 2011603.