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Japanese Studio Porcelain Plate by Seishoen browse these categories for related items... All Items: Antiques:Regional Art:Asian:Japanese:Porcelain: Pre 1910: item # 809775 Please refer to our stock # 2-823 when inquiring.
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The soft hand painting on this fine Japanese sometsuke (underglazed blue and white) studio porcelain dish depicts an almost ethereal view of bamboo stalks beneath a huge full moon. Meiji period, ca. 1900-1910. Signed “Sei sho en sei” (made by Seishoen) in underglaze blue on the reverse. The bamboo stalks and leaves are finely rendered in soft, freely drawn underglaze blue on a clear white ground. The subtle background shading moves up from a milky white and subtly changes to a lighter and then somewhat darker shade of blue, contrasting wonderfully with the bright white moon behind the bamboo leaves. A diapered floral border encircles the rim. The reverse has no decoration, with the exception of a double blue line encircling the unglazed foot and the four-character Seishoen signature in the center of the back. The low foot rim is unglazed, showing a very pure, fine-grained and high-quality white porcelain clay. Seishoen’s works are highly regarded and are considered to be of similar caliber to those by more widely known studio potters such as Makuzu Kozan or Shofu. A signed Seishoen vase is featured in the world famous Khalili Collection, illustrated in “Treasures of Imperial Japan: Ceramics from the Khalili Collection” on pages 41 and 78. CONDITION is excellent. DIMENSIONS: 7 ¼” (18.5 cm) diameter, 1 1/8” (2.8 cm) high. |
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