THREE JAPANESE ARITA MOULDED DISHES

THREE JAPANESE ARITA MOULDED DISHES

EDO PERIOD, 18TH CENTURY

With scalloped rims, each formed as a crane with its wings outstretched above its head, painted in polychrome enamels and gilt, the undersides left undecorated, each 22cm. (3)

The tsuru-no-maru (crane in a circle) design was used by the Mori clan as its mon (family crest).

See the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, access no.EA1978.496 for an underglaze-blue dish of similar form.