A PAIR OF SMALL KAKIEMON DISHES, FUKU MARKS, EDO PERIOD, LATE 17TH CENTURY
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November 5, 04:06 PM GMT
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3,000 - 5,000 GBP
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THE PROPERTY OF A LADY
A PAIR OF SMALL KAKIEMON DISHES, FUKU MARKS, EDO PERIOD, LATE 17TH CENTURY
each decagonal dish with narrow everted rim, decorated in iron-red, green, yellow and black enamels and gilt in underglaze blue with long-tailed pheasants among plum blossom and banded hedges, the rims with cherry blossoms, chocolate rims
(2)
18.5 cm., 7¼ in. wide
William Joseph Baron van Brienen (1760–1839), Mayor of Amsterdam and thence by descent
This design may have been the inspiration for the "Joshua Reynold" pattern of Worcester & Chelsea.
For a similar example see, Mark Hinton and Oliver Impey, Kakiemon: Porcelain from the English Country House, (London, 1990), p. 42, pl. 15.