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Japanese Arita Hirado Porcelain Plate, ex. Museum browse these categories for related items... All Items: Antiques:Regional Art:Asian:Japanese:Porcelain: Pre 1920: item # 435673 Please refer to our stock # 2B-744 when inquiring.
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| We believe this fine quality Japanese Imari sometsuke (blue and white porcelain) dish to be Hirado ware dating to the Meiji period, ca. 1900. The front of the plate is hand painted in shades of underglaze blue with the classic Chinese motif of two scholars in a bamboo grove on a pure white ground. The characteristic fine-grained milky white porcelain body is covered in a pure lustrous glaze. The exterior of the dish is undecorated. Hirado wares are considered to be among the finest porcelains ever made in Japan, and they are highly prized among today’s collectors. Hirado was produced at Mikawachi near Arita, and for much of its history was made under the patronage of the lords of Hirado. Aristocratic patronage ended in the 1830’s with the commercialization of the kilns; however, the quality of Hirado remained very high. Hirado ware consists of a very pure, fine-grained and high-quality white porcelain, usually decorated in underglaze cobalt blue. It is characterized by highly refined white clay that would be fired to high temperatures, and the glaze was lustrous and void of any kind of granulation. This dish was deaccessioned from the Hickory Museum of Art in Hickory, NC. Remnants of the original museum acquisition label remains on the bottom. Condition is excellent, with only a couple of tiny kiln burns. Dimensions: 7 ½” diameter, 1 ¼” high. | |||||||||
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