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Arita Sometsuke Meijin Karakusa Ozara Charger, Edo browse these categories for related items... All Items: Antiques:Regional Art:Asian:Japanese:Porcelain: Pre 1900: item # 805923 Please refer to our stock # 2-572 when inquiring.
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This deep oversized Japanese Imari blue and white porcelain charger (“sometsuke ozara”) is decorated with a hand painted “meijin karakusa” design around a central medallion of shochikubai (pine, plum and bamboo). Edo period, early 19th century. The classic meijin karakusa design, which is one variation of the scrolling vine pattern, is in the form of delicate denticulate leaves and little m-shaped curls. This is one of the many scrolling vine patterns which appear on domestic market blue and white Arita and Imari wares. This decorative style, with its formal white ring between the broad border and the central round medallion, developed by 1750 and continued through the early 19th century. (See Figure 17 in “The Lost Century: Japanese Arita Porcelain 1720-1820 in Britain” by noted authority Irene Finch.) The deep exterior wall is decorated with underglaze cobalt designs of tako-karakusa (octopus vine). There is a single mark of the type used on early Arita wares painted in underglaze blue on the foot, which also bears five spur marks. Five blue lines encircle the foot ring. 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. Ceramics for everyday use were made at the same kilns that were producing highly ornate, purely decorative wares primarily for export. Blue and white sometsuke porcelains with a karakusa designs are examples of wares made for the domestic Japanese market, and they are prized by Japanese collectors. CONDITION is excellent, with only normal wear consistent with age and usage. On the exterior of this heavily potted charger are two hairlines which can be seen under magnification. DIMENSIONS: 16” (40.6 cm) diameter, 3 ˝” (8.9 cm) deep. |
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