M5634
£5,250
Description
Large Japanese porcelain blue and white decagonal deep dish with indented corners, painted with a lady and her attendant on a naturalistic bridge, with a seated gentleman in a boat, the scene between prunus branches and rock work with a palm tree above a river, encircled by a ruyi-head border and beneath an upright brown dressed rim, the underside with a scrolling branch above underglaze blue lines, the base with a fuku mark within a double square, with natural spur marks.
11 ½ inches, 29.2 cm diameter.
Genroku period, 1690-1710.
Condition
Minute rim nibbles.
Provenance & Additional Information
- Sold by Maesaka Seiten-do, Tokyo.
- A similarly shaped figural dish with a similar underside and mark is illustrated by Akinori Hiwatashi in the Kyushu Ceramic Museum exhibition of The Shibata Collection, Part 5, 1997, no. 95, p. 177.
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