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A SHOKI IMARI DISH A RARE SHOKI IMARI DISH A VERY LARGE SHOKI IMARI DISH
EDO PERIOD, 1630-1640s EDO PERIOD, CIRCA 1620 EDO PERIOD, 1630-1640s
初期伊万里 染付皿、江戸時代、 初期伊万里 染付皿、江戸時代、1620年頃 初期伊万里 染付大皿、江戸時代、
1630 - 1640年代 1630 - 1640年代
the circular dish with wide everted rim and on
the circular dish with narrow everted rim, ringfoot, decorated in underglaze blue with a the deep dish with wide everted rim on ringfoot,
decorated in underglaze blue with stylised goat, the rim with ryui design decorated in underglaze blue with reeds and
feathers bordered by circumferential lines with a 17.2 cm, 6¾ in. diam. grasses beneath wispy clouds and a floral design
dark wash to the rim to the rim
21.5 cm, 8½ in. diam. LITERATURE 48.3 cm, 19 in. diam.
Sekido Museum of Art, Yamatake Yoshikazu
LITERATURE Collection – Early Imari Exhibition (Tokyo, 2014), LITERATURE
Sekido Museum of Art, Yamatake Yoshikazu pl.1 p.10 Sekido Museum of Art, Yamatake Yoshikazu
Collection – Early Imari Exhibition (Tokyo, 2014), Ogi Kazuyoshi and Murakami Nobuyuki, Imari Collection – Early Imari Exhibition (Tokyo, 2014),
pl.49 p.44 Tanjo to tenkai – Sosei kara sono hatten no ato pl.32 p.32
Ogi Kazuyoshi and Murakami Nobuyuki, Imari wo miru (Tokyo, 1998), pl.1 p.9 Ogi Kazuyoshi and Murakami Nobuyuki, Imari
Tanjo to tenkai – Sosei kara sono hatten no ato wo Tanjo to tenkai – Sosei kara sono hatten no ato
miru (Tokyo, 1998), pl.47 ‡ £ 20,000-30,000 wo miru (Tokyo, 1998), pl.33
€ 22,600-33,800 US$ 26,400-39,500
Kazuyoshi and Nobuyuki (Tokyo, 1998) describe Kazuyoshi and Nobuyuki (Tokyo, 1998) mention
this dish with yabane (feather arrow) motif as this is one of the largest early bowls and very
finely executed with the twelve arrows evenly refined with its small ring foot. An elegant aspect
drawn over the whole dish. Shards of this design is also the gohon (pinkish mottling).
were excavated at the Hokaoyama kiln in Arita.
For a similar large dish see Toguri Museum of Art,
For a similar example see Toguri Museum of Art, Early Imari Ware (Tokyo, 1997), pl.4 p.10
Early Imari Ware (Tokyo, 1997), pl. 46 p. 27
‡ £ 150,000-180,000
‡ £ 8,000-10,000 € 169,000-203,000 US$ 198,000-237,000
€ 9,100-11,300 US$ 10,600-13,200

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