AN UNUSUAL PAIR OF JAPANESE RETICULATED IMARI DISHES

AN UNUSUAL PAIR OF JAPANESE RETICULATED IMARI DISHES

EDO PERIOD, 1690-1730

The octagonal bodies decorated in underglaze blue, gilt, red, green and black enamels, each with a large shishi to the well prancing amongst peonies, the cavetto and rim with alternating panels enclosing further lion dogs, flowering prunus trees and acanthus leaves, each side with a circular medallion with brocade patterns in openwork, each 28.9cm. (2)

Cf. J Ayers, Chinese and Japanese Works of Art in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen, vol.II, pp.666-667, nos.1618-1620 and 1621-1630 for other examples of Arita dishes with reticulated roundels. Also, see the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, access. no. C.1505-1910 for another similar octagonal dish.