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A SHOKI IMARI DISH
EDO PERIOD (EARLY-MID 17TH CENTURY)
初期伊万里染付山水文皿
江戸時代（17世紀前中期）
The shallow circular dish with narrow everted rim on a small ringfoot, decorated
in underglaze blue with a rocky mountain landscape and two sail boats in water
beneath the sun, a band of geometric design to the rim
20.5 cm. diam.
£3,000-4,000 $5,100-6,700
€3,700-4,900

The sail boats and rocky mountains in the distance are reminiscent of those found
on Chinese dishes from the late Ming period.
For similar examples see:
Hayashiya Seizo ed., Nihon no toji [Japanese ceramics], vol. 5, Ko-Kutani, Ko-Imari
(Tokyo, 1972), pl. 284
City Art Museum of Saint Louis, 200 Years of Japanese Porcelain, (USA, 1970), p. 17
Nihon Toji Kyokai, Tosetsu, no. 175, (Tokyo, October 1975), p. 13
Yamashita Sakuro, Ko-Imari sometsukezara [Old Imari dishes decorated in
underglazed blue], (Tokyo, 1970), p. 152-153, no. 75 and p. 154, no. 77

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