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ANOTHER PROPERTY For a similar example in the Ashmolean Museum Oxford,
AN ARITA DISH ORDERED FOR THE DUTCH see: John Ayers, Oliver Impey and J.V.G. Mallet, Porcelain
EAST INDIA COMPANY for Palaces, the Fashion for Japan in Europe, 1650–1750,
an exhibition organised with the British Museum, (London,
EDO PERIOD, LATE 17 TH CENTURY 1991), no. 32 p.94; in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, see:
有田 染付芙蓉手VOC大皿、江戸時代、17世紀後期 Martin Lerner, Blue and White, Early Japanese Export Ware
(New York, 1979), no. 59, and see: Oliver Impey, The Early
the circular dish with wide rim decorated in underglaze blue Porcelain Kilns of Japan (New York, 1996), p. 11.
with a central roundel depicting the initials of the Dutch
East India Company “VOC” (Vereenigde Oostindische For further discussion on this style of dish see: C. J. A Jörg,
Compagnie), surrounded by birds among foliage, bordered Interaction in Ceramics, Oriental Porcelain and Delftware
by six panels of flowers (Hong Kong, 1984), pl. 63, p. 108.
36.5 cm., 14.3 in. diam. For a similar example, see Soame Jenyns, Japanese
Dishes with the VOC monogram demonstrate the role of the Porcelain, (London, 1965), pl. 14.B.
East India Company trade in East-West relations. The dishes £ 10,000-15,000
are not mentioned in trade documents but were probably € 11,800-17,700 US$ 13,300-19,900
specially ordered for use by company staff at the factory on
Deshima and other factories in Asia including Batavia.

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