Sold Ceramics - Sold Japanese Imari 1690-1800 - 'Gold' Imari - Page 2

Object 2010600

Dish

Japan

c.1720

Height 53 mm (2.09 inch), diameter of rim 210 mm (8.27 inch), diameter of footring 119 mm (4.69 inch), weight 671 grams (19.43 ounce (oz.))

Sixteen-lobbed dish on footring with spreading sides and a lobbed rim. On the base four spur-marks in a Y-pattern. 'Gold' Imari, decorated in overglaze gold, iron-red and a light pinkish gold wash with various flowering chrysanthemums in a circle. Round the foot of the cavetto a petalled circle. On the cavetto seven stylised golden chrysanthemum flower heads outlined in red with white centres (some in low relief) are scattered across all the panels. The reverse with four camellia flower heads surrounded by scrolling branches.

Condition: Wear to the decoration in the centre and on the sides, a tiny fleabite to the rim.

Price: Sold.