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Object 2012346

Bowl

Japan

1700-1720

Height 98 mm (3.86 inch), diameter of rim 222 mm (8.74 inch), diameter of footring 109 mm (4.29 inch), weight 901 grams (31.78 ounce (oz.))

Octagonal bowl on footring, spreading sides, everted rim, the edge upturned with indented corners. Imari, decorated in underglaze blue, iron-red, green, turquoise, yellow and gold. In the centre a roundel with a maple tree growing from rockwork near a fence with scattered flower heads floating in a pond. Round the rim reverse decorated pomegranates in iron-red on an underglaze blue ground with a diaper pattern in gold alternating with flower sprays tied with a knotted string. The outside with eight panels alternately filled with flowering plants growing from rockwork near a fence, a roundel filled with a banded hedge and flowering chrysanthemum and grasses reserved on an underglaze blue ground with a diaper pattern in gold, two copulating peacocks on a branch of a maple tree and a roundel filled with a geometrical/swastika pattern reserved on an underglaze blue ground with a diaper pattern in gold. Round the rim a border with upturned pointed leaves. Near the footring a wave pattern border. Round the foot a wavy scroll pattern border. On the base a two characters (shop/painter mark?) in iron-red in a double circle in underglaze blue and the remains of two rectangular paper labels.

A classical piece of Imari. The use of light green and turquoise enamels is characteristic of good quality Imari of the early 18th century. The border division is a remnant of the kraak-style period, re-interpreted and used in a different way. (Jörg 2003/1, p.118)

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Condition: Two firing flaws and three tiny spots with loss of enamel.

References:

Impey 2002, cat. 331

Jörg 2003/1, cat. 127

Kyushu 2003, cat. 1922

Price: Sold.