A JAPANESE ORIBE-STYLE DISH MEIJI PERIOD

A JAPANESE ORIBE-STYLE DISH

MEIJI PERIOD, 19TH CENTURY

The quatrelobed body decorated with splashes of thick blue and green enamels, the well with a large stylised crayfish and an amoeba-like organism, the short raised rim with brown abstract patterns and the underside left bare, 19.8cm.

Provenance: a private English collection, London and Shetland.