A SMALL COLLECTION OF JAPANESE CELADON PIECES

A SMALL COLLECTION OF JAPANESE CELADON PIECES

EDO AND MEIJI, 18TH AND 19TH CENTURY

Comprising: two Nabeshima dishes moulded as abalone shells, a soba cup with an underglaze blue fuku mark to the base, and a small footed cup, 16cm max. (4)

Provenance: from the collection of Dr Oliver Impey (1936-2005), and Dr Jane (Mellanby) Impey (1938-2021), of Cumnor Place, Oxford. According to Oliver Impey's archive, he purchased the dishes in Kyoto.

See the Suntory Museum of Art, Tokyo, access. no.202/2646, for a comparable shell-shaped dish with overglaze decoration dated to circa 1730-70.