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All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1700 item #1314729 (stock #2898)
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A fine Kakiemon dish painted with a tako-karakusa, octopus scroll, arabesque ring to the border of the foliate moulded dish. The centre of the dish decorated with a symmetrically arranged ring with a repeating pattern of a stylised Pine grove, matsubara...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1700 item #1219674 (stock #2637)
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An Arita dish in Kakiemon style dating to the period 1670-90 decorated in Shikishi Chirashi style with “Shikishi”, shaped poem cards which were used for the composing of both Poems and Small Paintings ,scattered, chirashi, over an asymmetric arrangement of Kara Kusa with Baika, plum flowers. The paintings depicting clouds and a hermit’s refuge. The design is quite austere almost in wabi sabi taste ...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1700 item #1219675 (stock #2638)
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An Arita dish in Kakiemon style dating to the period 1670-90 decorated in Shikishi Chirashi style with “Shikishi”, shaped poem cards which were used for the composing of both Poems and Small Paintings ,scattered, chirashi, over am asymmetric arrangement of Kara Kusa with Baika, plum flowers. The inset paintings depicting a clouds and a hermit’s refuge. The reverse decorated with a classic lotus scroll ring and a six character mark for the Chinese Emperor Chenghua...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1700 item #1247424
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A large Kakiemon dish decorated with the Three Friends of Winter to the rim and a central motif of a Peony. The reverse decorated with a continuous lotus scroll and a spiral fuku in a double square. The dish dates to the late seventeenth century circa 1680-1700. The dish measures approximately 25 cm in diameter and stands 6cm high. The dish is in good condition, except for a crack to the rim and small filled chip. Shipping at Cost.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1700 item #1330731 (stock #EW 2945)
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£ 380.00
A good example of an “Ai Kutani” style dish decorated with a continuous scrolling vine of Peony flowers with Peony leaves and Buds set against a “frog spawn” type ground, which is typical of the period; see Volume II of the Shibata Collection no 347 for an identical border arabesque there dated circa 1670-80...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1700 item #1330732 (stock #EW2946)
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A dish intended for use in the kaseki meal decorated with three ragged fans inset within an arabesque of Hagi, bushclover, one of the seven plants of Autumn, that makes up the Akikusa-de. The sensu, Japanese folded fan, was often used as a seasonal motif representing the hot and dry months of summer, so the discarded ragged appearance of the fans shows that summer has ended, and that the winds of autumn have arrived...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1800 item #1336427 (stock #EW 2955)
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$125.00
A pair of Imari tea bowls and saucers made for export to Europe decorated with a pattern of Hydrangea plants framed by a reserves bordered with brocade drapery tied with ribbons. The tea bowls are in good condition with no cracks, chips or restoration. They measure approximately 7.3 cm in diameter and are 4.2 cm in height. The saucers are also in good condition with no cracks, chips or restoration. However both have some glazing flaws, glaze skip, to the reverse, and one has some random crazing...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1800 item #1314731 (stock #2899)
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A finely moulded Arita dish the upper third painted with a simple landscape containing a flowering Japanese Apricot, ume, symbolic of Winter partially “obscured” by the rim of the dish and Bell flowers, kikyo, Gentian, symbolic of Autumn. The remaining lower portion decorated with a stencilled, katagami, brocade pattern of hexagonal diaper with florets. The edge of the dish has a thickly applied dark iron brown glaze...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1800 item #1431854 (stock #EW3203)
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An unusual Arita dish with an out-turned rim decorated in a greyish toned under-glaze blue with a Chinese Export Qianlong “Chinoiserie” style pattern featuring a conventionalised landscape of Pagoda and Islands surrounded by two bands of diaper containing four floral sprigs, Peonies and Chrysanthemums...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1800 item #1396178 (stock #EW3109)
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An abalone shaped dish decorated in underglaze blue with trailing Clematis vine, Tessen. The dish is in “Ko Sometsuke” style based on porcelain specifically produced in China for the Japanese market in the first half of the seventeenth century and made to Japanese specifications. The abalone form was considered especially auspicious, as noshi, dried awabi strips, were formally presented with gifts...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1800 item #1396179 (stock #EW3110)
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An abalone shaped dish decorated in underglaze blue with trailing Clematis vine, Tessen. The dish is in “Ko Sometsuke” style based on porcelain specifically produced in China for the Japanese market in the first half of the seventeenth century made to Japanese specifications. The abalone form was considered especially auspicious, as noshi, dried awabi strips, were formally presented with gifts...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1800 item #1469874 (stock #EW3229)
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$150.00
A rare Arita nagazara, long dish, of pod shape, a symbol of fertility and fecundity, decorated entirely in underglaze blue with a border pattern of entwined Pine, Matsu, and Wisteria vine, Fuji, with Plum flower, ume-hana. The central reserve decorated with a pair of Dragons amongst lightning and clouds. The reverse decorated with further Dragons and precious objects cash, scrolls and flaming pearls. The foot of the dish decorated with a band of leiwen...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1700 item #1405846 (stock #EW3152)
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An Arita foliate form dish decorated in underglaze blue with a band of auspicious shippo, cash, connoting a wish for wealth combined with mounds of evergreen Japanese Forrest grass, a symbol of longevity. Similar designs are to be found on Kakiemon porcelain of the Empo period where the same stylised motifs are used. The reverse painted with a sketchy small leaf arabesque combined with a spiral fuku in a double square...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1700 item #1309492 (stock #2890)
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A circular dish with slightly everted rim decorated with a landscape freize to the cavetto. The pattern is split into equal halves, by a zigzagging screen wall on one side, and an S shaped motif with ruyi cloud shaped motifs. The first portion of the design shows a pair of scholar’s playing Go sitting beneath a Bodri Tree set in a landscape with a scholar’s refuge cum tea house and oddly oversized autumn flowers, kikyo, bell flowers, and suisen, Japanese narcissus...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1700 item #1309494 (stock #2891)
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A circular dish with slightly everted rim decorated with a landscape freize to the cavetto. The pattern is split into equal halves, by a zigzagging screen wall on one side, and an S shaped motif with ruyi cloud shaped motifs. The first portion of the design shows a pair of scholar’s playing Go sitting beneath a Bodri Tree set in a landscape with a scholar’s refuge cum tea house and oddly oversized autumn flowers, kikyo, bell flowers, and suisen, Japanese narcissus...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1800 item #1322721 (stock #2922 )
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A large dish decorated in reverse painted style, kakiwake, with a pair of Karako, Chinese boys, Shirasagi, White Egrets, and Chrysanthemums. The border painted with a narrow band of shippo against a blue ground, and the reverse of the dish painted with a series of ten auspicious trigrams divided by zoomorphic motifs, perhaps intended to represent scroll dragons. A double square with a four character reign mark for the Xuande Emperor. The subject is taken from the Noh play Kikujido, “the ...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1800 item #1402639 (stock #EW3126)
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A nagazara or long dish of bean-pod form, a very unusual shape, decorated with auspicious un-ryu, dragons and clouds, in its central reserve, surrounded by Matsu-fuji, entwined Pine branches and Wisteria vine, a traditional Japanese motif associated with longevity. The reverse decorated with further auspicious Dragons and precious objects, cash and scrolls with flaming pearls. Within the footrim and to the base of the dish a four character fukichosun mark signifying a wish for a long and prosper...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Asian : Japanese : Porcelain : Pre 1700 item #1214870 (stock #2625)
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The plate is decorated in late Ming Kraak “fuyo-de” style with a pattern of alternating panels of flowers, Chrysanthemums and Camellias, with Precious objects, interspersed with pendant Lozenge motifs. The central mikomi framed by a narrow atypical floral band depicts an oversized figure holding a rod standing upon a bridge with two oxen set in a classic Chinese “sansui” landscape’. The reverse decorated with a classic Kraak reverse pattern of the transitional Ming period. The figu...