Condition: Good, no chips, hairlines or repairs. The glaze is a bit rough on the upper rim, the enamel worn on one flower on the outer side of the bowl.
Condition: Excellent except for two small chips to the unglazed foot of the bowl, the larger of which is illustrated.
Condition: There is a firing imperfection behind her left ear, a repair to her neck and some enamel losses.
Condition: Excellent, no chips, hairlines or restoration. The pierced wooden lid, which appears to once have had a nob, has a chip to the underside.
Condition: Fine except for a number of tiny chips in the brown rim paint. There are no major chips, hairlines or repairs.
Condition: Excellent
Condition: Gold paint on the upper rim is worn. No chips, hairlines or repairs.
Condition: Excellent. No chips, cracks or repairs
Condition: Quite good, with only two minor rim chips illustrated in photograph 5.
Condition: Excellent, with only minor wear to enamel and one almost undetectibly small old chip to the edge of the base.
Condition: Excellent. No chips, cracks or repairs.
Condition: Excellent. No chips, cracks or restoration
Condition: Excellent, very slight wear. No chips, cracks, or restoration.
Condition: Excellent
Condition is excellent.
This shallow bowl-form dish is decorated with a peony growing from a rocky ground in underglaze cobalt blue. It is set on a high foot--characteristic of classic Nabeshima dishes. The foot is painted with the so-called comb tooth pattern often seen on dishes of this sort. It is glazed overall in an even, clear glaze that takes on a very slight, pale celadon tinge on the exterior. The base is glazed and the fine paste is exposed on the footring...