M4739
£5,250
Description
A Japanese Arita porcelain octagonal bowl with lobed everted rim, painted on the exterior in coloured enamels; green, yellow and turquoise, iron-red, gilt and underglaze blue, with continuous aster flowers and scrolling branches of foliage, the interior well with a large chrysanthemum bloom on a circular branch within a double ring, all below eight alternating panels of flowering chrysanthemum and daisies, below the everted rim with a band of triangular gilt branch with single bloom on a blue ground, alternating with coloured and gilt branches of flowers, the base with an underglaze blue double-ring.
22.5 cm, 8 7/8 inches diameter.
Circa 1720.
Condition
Excellent.
Provenance & Additional Information
- Formerly in the collection of Soame Jenyns, a former curator of the British Museum and author of many books.
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