Antique Chinese & Japanese PorcelainEuropean Ceramics & Works of Art
Japanese Arita Imari charger, 1690-1730, decorated in the centre with a small roundel containing three heads of peony and foliage, set within a pavillion garden scene with a veranda, a bamboo blind (sudare) and boughs of flowering cherry blossom, a taselled curtain drawn back as if to reveal the scene; the rim with four cartouches containing watery landscape scenes with pine, against a dark blue ground with meandering chrysanthemum scroll in iron-red and gilt, the reverse with boughs of prunus, concentric circles in underglaze blue and spur marks to the base.
Dimensions:
Diameter: 43.6cm. (17 1/4in.)
Notes:
For a similar charger see the Exhibtion Catalogue: Ko-Imari in Paris. Enchanting beauty: 350 years of Japanese porcelain exports to Europe, 2009, p. 115, pl. 98.
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