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Imari Shou Lao and the Eight Immortals Dish c.1730 No 1
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Pre 1800 item# 1105635 (stock# 2338)
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EastWest Gallery
$260 - £160
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An intriguing design painted in Wucai style, showing the Eight Immortals visiting Shoulao. The design is adapted from a Chinese design made for the Imperial Court in the later half of the reign of the Emperor Wanli, the second half of the sixteenth century. The Dragon in the centre is an amalgam of a Feiyu, Flying fish dragon, and a conventional dragon, rather than a true Feiyu, which would have had a pair of fins and fish tail rather than legs and conventional tail of this example. The border ...click for details
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Rare Ko Imari Octagonal Dish c.1700.
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Pre 1800 item# 1100483 (stock# 2335)
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EastWest Gallery
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An Arita dish decorated in Katamono style of octagonal moulded form decorated with a central Sansui-ga, landscape, presumably an evocation of the Doaist Isles of the Immortals, framed by a double wave border. The rim divided into eight panels containing stylised Chrysanthemum motifs and Cherry blossom within ogee shaped reserves. The reverse decorated with cloud motifs in cobalt blue linked by an iron red arabesque, and a Chinese six character mark for the Emperor Jiajing, and six spur marks ar ...click for details
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