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A NABESHIMA DISH
EDO PERIOD (LATE 17TH - EARLY 18TH CENTURY)
鍋島染付鶏頭文皿
江戸時代（17世紀後期-18世紀前期）
The shallow circular dish with upturned edge on a high foot, decorated in underglaze
blue with keitou [amaranth], the reverse with tasseled coin clusters,
the ring foot with comb design
15.2cm. diam.
£20,000-30,000 $34,000-51,000
€25,000-37,000

For similar examples with coloured enamels see:
Imaizumi Motosuke, Nabeshima, vol. 21 of Nihon no yakimono [Japanese ceramics],
(Tokyo, 1975), no. 60 (Okayama Prefectural Museum of Art)
Hayashiya Seizo, ed., Nabeshima, vol. 10 of Nihon no Toji [Japanese ceramics],
(Tokyo, 1988), p. 121, no. 209 (Okayama Prefectural Museum of Art)
Nagatake Takeshi and Yabe Yoshiaki et. al., Iro Nabeshima: Nabeshima-han yoseki
hakkutsu kinen, (Fukuoka, 1982), p. 78 (Okayama Prefectural Museum of Art)
Nagatake Takeshi, Iro-Nabeshima: Nihon jiki no seika, Hizen Nabeshima-han
goyogama no meiki, (Kyoto, 1975), (Okayama Prefectural Museum of Art)
Imaizumi Imaemon, Yabe Yoshiaki and Suzuta Yukio, Les Cadeaux au Shogun:
Porcelaine Precieuse des Seigneurs de Nabeshima, (Paris, 1997), p. 191, no. 118
Kudo Yoshiro, Nabeshima-ten: waga kuni yuiitu no kanyo Nabeshima, sono
shutsugen kara shuen made, (Saga, 1996), p.53, no.84.