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THREE JAPANESE NABESHIMA-STYLE DISHES

EDO AND LATER, 18TH/19TH CENTURY AND LATER

The smaller octagonal dish decorated with red cherry blossoms on an underglaze-blue ground of spider webs, the underside with a signature for Imaizumi Imaemon; another dish with three mitsu tomoe swirls on a ground of further prunus blossoms; the third with three panels enclosing formal designs of lotus leaves and sacred pearls, on a diaper ground, with details in polychrome enamels; all three raised on tall feet and with three flower sprays to the underside, 20.7cm max. (3)

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, the octagonal dish was made by Imaizumi Imaemon after an Edo period original, and was directly gifted by the artist to him and Jane.