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Nabeshima Style Dish with Peonies, Meiji browse these categories for related items... All Items: Antiques:Regional Art:Asian:Japanese:Porcelain: Pre 1920: item # 490486 Please refer to our stock # 2B-771 when inquiring.
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This fine quality Japanese Arita sometsuke (blue and white porcelain) deep dish in Nabeshima style is most likely a product of the Hirado kilns dating to the Meiji period (1868-1912). It is beautifully hand painted in various shades of underglaze blue with large peony sprays and two butterflies in flight on a pure white ground. The reverse is also painted in Nabeshima style with an underglaze blue comb-tooth pattern on the high foot (“kushikodai”) and five underglaze cobalt blue peony blossoms. The characteristic fine-grained milky white porcelain body is covered in a pure lustrous glaze. In the Meiji period the Hirado kilns made many pieces in traditional Nabeshima style, and this dish was likely made in imitation of an early 18th century original. (The original Nabeshima dish is illustrated in Plate 109 in “Kouki Nabeshima, Book II,” by Kazuyoshi Ogi. Kouki Nabeshima wares date from 1736 to 1868.) Both Nabeshima and 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. 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. The satin-smooth feel of the unglazed foot rim is one indicator that this dish is Hirado ware. Condition is very good, with only a small imperceptible hairline on the rim and some minute kiln bubbles on the front surface. It rings nicely when tapped. Dimensions: 7 7/8” (20 cm) diameter, 2 1/8” (5.5 cm) high. |
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