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Japanese Imari Porcelain Dish Signed Hichozan Shinpo browse these categories for related items... All Items: Antiques:Regional Art:Asian:Japanese:Porcelain: Pre 1900: item # 657281 Please refer to our stock # 2-752A8 when inquiring.
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This heavily-potted and molded Hizen Arita porcelain charger in octagonal form is decorated with thick overglaze enamels and sits atop a high combed foot rim. Early Meiji period, ca.1870. The reverse is signed in overglaze red enamel “Hichozan Shinpo Sei” (Made by Hichozan Shinpo). The rich hand painted iron red overglaze background of the outer rim has contrasting white scrolling vine design and contains four fan shaped medallions with floral and landscape designs in the classic Imari palette. A circle of flower blossoms fills the central medallion. There are eight pinwheel swirls emanating from the center to the outer rim which have been molded into this heavy deep dish. The exterior rim, which is decorated with six bats hand painted in iron red, surrounds the high combed foot rim painted in underglaze blue. Hichozan was a trade name used by the group of Arita kilns and makers mainly for export during late Edo to Meiji period in the 19th century. “Hichozan Shinpo” was the trademark used by Tashiro Monzaemon, a merchant who expanded the export trade of Arita porcelains in the late Edo/early Meiji period. (See MEIJI CERAMICS by Gisela Jahn, page 320, for the Hichozan Shinpo mark.) CONDITION is very good, with no chips, cracks or restoration. There is some minor glaze loss on the front due to normal wear and usage. DIMENSIONS: 11 ½” (29.4 cm) diameter, 2 1/8” (5.5 cm) high. |
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