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Arita Sometsuke Foliate Rim Bowl, Edo Period browse these categories for related items... All Items: Antiques:Regional Art:Asian:Japanese:Porcelain: Pre 1837 VR: item # 386181 Please refer to our stock # 2B-719 when inquiring.
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| This attractive Japanese Imari sometsuke (blue and white porcelain) bowl with scalloped rim and six panels surrounding a central medallion likely dates to the late 18th/early 19th century. Each divided panel is decorated in brilliant underglaze cobalt blue with alternating landscape designs surrounding a central roundel containing three fruit. The reverse is decorated with a continuous underglaze cobalt blue karakusa scroll design, and four blue rings encircle the unglazed foot. There is an underglaze blue fuku mark on the base. Arita is a town on the island of Kyushu which has been a center of Japanese porcelain production since the seventeenth century. With Arita blue and whites, the blue is produced from a cobalt or indigo pigment and is painted straight onto the biscuit, after which the piece is glazed and fired. (See The Lost Century: Japanese Arita Porcelain 1720-1820 by Irene Finch for similar styled bowls.) Condition is excellent, with only a small superficial firing flaw on the base near the fuku mark. Dimensions: 6 diameter, 2 deep. | |||||||||||
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