A JAPANESE ARITA MOULDED DISH EDO PERIOD

A JAPANESE ARITA MOULDED DISH

EDO PERIOD, 17TH/18TH CENTURY

The pentalobed nigoshide (milky white) body with a brown rim and moulded with a scene of two scholars seated in a veranda, laughing at a third figure dancing in the garden before them, the design possibly inspired by a Chinese print, with moulded maple leaves to the cavetto, raised on a short foot and the base with three spur marks, 18.8cm.

Provenance: an English private collection formed in the 1960s.

Cf. R Soame Jenyns, Japanese Porcelain, pl.72A, for a comparable example of a moulded dish from the Mr and Mrs Richard de la Mare Collection.

PLEASE NOTE THIS LOT WILL BE SOLD AT NO RESERVE.