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Object 2011262

Saucer

Japan

1690-1730

Height 28 mm (1.10 inch), diameter of rim 122 mm (4.80 inch), diameter of footring 52 mm (2.05 inch), weight 90 grams (3.17 ounce (oz.))

Saucer on footring, spreading sides. Imari decorated in, iron-red and yellow, aubergine, green, grey, black enamels and gold with four kneeled figures on a terrace drinking tea in a ''Chinese style', which did not require a saucer for the cup, in a central roundel. On the sides and rim leafy scroll borders with peony, carnation and chrysanthemum flower heads. The reverse is undecorated.

Decorations executed entirely in enamel colours can be classed among the early Imari group, this type of 'tea ceremony' decoration must have had an exotic appeal to the Western buyer. Although no underglaze-blue was used in this type of decoration both O. Impey and C.J.A. Jörg categorise this 'in enamels only' type of decoration as Imari. (Jörg 1995, pp.115-116)

Four identically shaped, sized and decorated saucers, all found in England, are in an English private collection.

For an identically decorated saucer, please see;

For similarly decorated objects, please see;

Japanese Export Porcelain. Catalogue of the Collection of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, (O. Impey, Hotei Publishing, Amsterdam, 2002), p.218, cat. 373 & 374.
Fine & Curious: Japanese Export Porcelain in Dutch Collections, (C.J.A. Jörg, Hotei Publishing, Amsterdam 2003), p.199, cat. 253.

Condition: Perfect.

References:

Jörg 1995, cat. 52

Impey 2002, cat. 373 & 374

Jörg 2003/1, cat. 253

Kyushu 2003, cat. 2793

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Price: Sold.