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A FINE AND RARE KAKIEMON A RARE ENAMELLED KAKIEMON blossoms, the base with a clove mark
EARLY-ENAMELLED DISH STYLE LOBED DISH surrounded by leaves, five spur marks
EDO PERIOD, MID-LATE 17 TH EDO PERIOD, LATE 17 TH -18 TH 31.8 cm., 12½ in. diam.
CENTURY CENTURY LITERATURE

the shallow dish decorated in green, yellow, with low footrim and ten-lobed outline, For similar example in the collection of W.W.
blue and black enamels with an overall decorated in iron-red and various shades Winkworth see The Oriental Ceramic Society,
decoration of ginger flowers and scrolling of green, yellow, black enamels and gilt on Loan Exhibition of Japanese Porcelain, (London,
karakusa, the reverse with ginger among underglaze blue with stylised paulownia 1956), no. 241, pl. 241.
scrolling foliage leaves and blossoms against a lattice design For other examples of this pattern which
27 cm., 10½ in. diam. interspersed with formal floral motifs, the has been variously described in Japanese
reverse with waves and scattered cherry literature as either Kakiemon or Imari, see
‡ £ 10,000-15,000
€ 11,300-16,900 US$ 12,500-18,700

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