SIX JAPANESE PORCELAIN ITEMS

SIX JAPANESE PORCELAIN ITEMS

EDO AND MEIJI PERIOD, 18TH AND 19TH CENTURY

Comprising: a pair of foliate dishes, each decorated with a small butterfly fluttering by a cluster of grapes and vines; a pair of rectangular dishes with the Three Friends of Winter, the pine, prunus and bamboo issuing from rockwork, both with a mark to the base reading Da Ming Chenghua nian zhi; and a pair of circular bowls decorated in Kakiemon-style polychrome enamels with sprays of flowers and paulownia mon, 21cm max. (6)

Cf. The Kyushu Ceramic Museum, Complete Catalogue of Shibata Collection, no.3681 for a related dish with vines and butterfly. The authors date it as c.1780-1810.