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A NABESHIMA DISH
EDO PERIOD (LATE 17TH - EARLY 18TH CENTURY)
鍋島染付花篭文皿
江戸時代（17世紀後期-18世紀前期）
The shallow circular dish on a high foot, decorated in underglaze blue with a fower
display of mokusei [fragrant olive] and shukaido [hardy begonia] in two small
vases, each vase also flled with fowerheads, all in a bamboo basket on a ground of
geometric design to the lower part, the reverse undecorated
15cm. diam.
£30,000-40,000 $51,000-67,000
€37,000-49,000

A small number of extant pieces of this design are known and similarly their
reverse are also undecorated, which is rather rare in Nabeshima ware. For similar
examples see:
Nomura Taizo, Hachi, sara: Nihon 8,000 nen no bi no utsuwa [8,000 Years of
Japanese Pottery], (Osaka, 1973), no. 338
Toguri Bijutsukan [Toguri Museum of Art], Nihon toji meihin zuroku [Japanese
ceramics in the Toguri collection], (Tokyo, 1988), no. 342
Kudo Yoshiro, Nabeshima, (Tokyo, 2005), p. 156, no. 167
Seki Kazuo, Nabeshima kozara: Ai Nabeshima kozara to sono shuhen, (Osaka,
1995), p. 33, no. 89
Imaizumi Imaemon VIII and Yabe Yoshiaki ed., Nabeshima ten: waza to miyabi no
kiwami, exhibition catalogue, (Saga, 1995), p.75, no. 81
For other examples with similar fower basket design but without the geometric
ground, see:
Hayashiya Seizo, ed., Nabeshima, vol. 10 of Nihon no Toji [Japanese ceramics],
(Tokyo, 1988), p. 118, no. 200 (Okayama Prefectural Museum of Art) and no. 201
Imaizumi Motosuke, Iro Nabeshima to Matsugatani, (Tokyo, 1969), no. 126 and 131

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