Ref: Y152
Archive item - not for sale
Japanese imari charger, Edo period (late 17th/early 18th century), decorated in the centre with a bijin and her attendant walking a small dog in a garden with chrysanthemum, prunus and peony branches, with a girl looking out from behind bamboo blinds, the border with branches of pomegranates and peonies, diameter: 20 1/4in., 51.4cm. For a similar dish see C.1513-1910 in the V&A: Japan, room 45, case 1 (part of the Salting Bequest), which has a Dresden inventory mark, attributing it to the collection of ‘Augustus the Strong’. Illustrated in Ayers, 'Far Eastern Ceramics in the Victoria & Albert Museum', (1980), pl. 78. SOLD
