Japanese wares with Western Shapes or Designs 1653-1800 - Page 2

Object 2012200

Dish

Japan

c.1750

Height 41 mm (1.61 inch), diameter of rim 194 mm (7.64 inch), diameter of biscuit base 134 mm (5.28 inch), weight 402 grams (14.18 ounce (oz.))

Dish (once part of a butter tub with matching dish set) with a broad biscuit band and three similar feet, the recessed centre glazed, flat rim with slightly everted edge. Decorated in underglaze blue and gold with a river scene showing a pavilion, a gate and trees on the rocky bank. Near the pavilion two groups of square objects (rocks or racks?). Round the rim a border with a diaper pattern in gold alternating with reserved ruyi-shaped and trapezoid panels filled with stylised flowers. (Jörg 2003/1, pp.180-181, cat. 221)

For an identically shaped and decorated butter tub dish, please see;

• The Lost Century, Japanese Arita Porcelain 1720 - 1820 in Britain: Selective Catalogue, (I. Finch, exhibition catalogue Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, 1998), p.20, cat 100.

For identically shaped and decorated dishes with matching butter tubs, please see;

• Sold Ceramics - Sold Japanese Blue and White wares 18th Century - Tableware and other Porcelain with Western Shapes - Page 1 - Object 2011811.

• Ko-Imari from the collection of Oliver Impey, (Barry Davies Oriental Art, London, 1997), pp. 142-143, cat. 80.
• Fine & Curious. Japanese Export Porcelain in Dutch Collections, (C.J.A. Jörg, Hotei Publishing, Amsterdam, 2003), pp.180-181, cat. 221.
• Ko-Imari in Paris. Enchanting beauty: 350 years of Japanese porcelain exports to Europe / Pari ni saita Ko Imari no hana: Nihon jiki Yōroppa yushutsu 350-shūnen kinen, (O. Koji, Nihon Keizai Shinbunsha, Tokyo 2009), p.191, cat. 165

Condition: Some firing flaws.

References:

Jörg 1986/1, cat. 77

London 1997, cat. 80

Finch 1998, cat. 101

Jörg 2003/1, cat. 221

Tokyo 2009, cat. 165

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