R&G McPherson Antiques

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A Late 17th or Early 18th Century Japanese Porcelain Dish Decorated in the Kakiemon Manner. (Japan)
Item Stock Code

22463

Item Medium Description

China

Item Diameter

21.20cm

Converted Diameter

8.35 inches

Item Provenance & History

Rafi Mottahedeh Collection, no.1033.

Item Literature

or a Kakiemon style dish of the same design from the collection of Gerald Reitlinger see : Japanese Porcelain (Soame Jenyns, Faber and Faber, 1965) plate 69. Another example is illustrated in : The Burghley Porcelains, An Exhibition from The Burghley House Collection and Based on the 1688 Inventory and 1690 Devonshire Schedule (Japan Society, New York,1986) page 82. Another Japanese porcelain dish of this pattern dated to c.1750 appears in : Ko-Imari Porcelain From The Collection Of Oliver Impey (Barry Davies Oriental Art Ltd, London, 1997).
China for the West, Chinese Porcelain & other Decorative Arts for Export Illustrated from the Mottahedeh Collection (David S. Howard and John Ayers, Sotheby`s,1978) Volume 1, page 125, plate 104.

Item Exhibition History

Girton College, Cambridge, Two Quail, Exhibition Catalogue, 2004, no.3.

Current Item Condition

Some light rubbing, especially to the two quail and the center. The foot rim with a dark fracture type crack c.30 mm.

Item Description / Dealer Expertise

The Thickly Potted Shallow Form, Painted in Underglaze Blue and Coloured Enamels with Two Quail Beside Clumps of Wakamatsu and Flowering Kiku. The Reverse with Birds and Flowering Plants in Underglaze Blue, the Base with a Running Fuku Mark.

Status

SOLD