TWO JAPANESE NABESHIMA DISHES

TWO JAPANESE NABESHIMA DISHES

MEIJI ERA, 19TH CENTURY

Both decorated in underglaze blue and polychrome enamels, one with shaped panels enclosing the shochikubai (pine, prunus and bamboo) on a cracked-ice ground, the other with a fruiting branch of chestnut, both painted underneath with beribboned clusters of cash and raised on a short foot with comb design, with paper collection labels for the Mary & Peter White Collection, both approx. 20.6cm. (2)