An 18th Century Japanese Imari Porcelain Plate

c.1700 - 1730

A Large 18th Century Japanese Imari Plate, Arita Kilns c.1700 – 1730. This thickly potted Japanese porcelain plate is painted in the Imari palette with four leaping carp, three are above the rough waves and another is just emerging out of the water. The petal-shaped panels from scenes of birds, fruit and flowering plants within a garden context.

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Condition
In excellent condition, minor wear to the gilding.
Size
Diameter 25.7 cm (10 inches)
Provenance
N/A
Stock number
25735

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A Worcester Plate c.1770
Decorated in the Japanese Imari style with four carp swimming among stylised waves, the border richly painted and gilt with petal-shaped panels of flowering oriental shrubs, the blue ground gilt with further scrolling ornament, the underside of the rim painted with three sprays of iron-red flowers, 22.7cm diam.

Provenance
T Grant Dixon Collection

A very similar example was in the Barbara Leake Collection sold by Bonhams, 12 March 2008, lot 233. See Klaber and Klaber, Oriental Influences on European Porcelain, April 1978, fig. 6a together with a Japanese prototype from the Frank Lloyd Collection. Another Worcester plate with an outside-decorated version of the same pattern was in the Zorensky Collection, part 3, lot 222.

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A Worcester plate, circa 1770 Decorated in the Japanese Imari style with four carp swimming among stylised waves, the border richly painted and gilt with petal-shaped panels of flowering oriental shrubs, the blue ground gilt with further scrolling ornament, the underside of the rim painted with three sprays of iron-red flowers, 22.7cm diam
Japanese Imari Porcelain :
Imari Porcelain is the European collectors` name for a type of Japanese Porcelain made in the town of Arita, in the former Hizen Province, north western Kyūshū, and exported via the port of Imari, specifically for the European Export trade. Imari was simply the trans-shipment port for Arita wares, no porcelain was made there. The kilns at Arita formed the heart of the Japanese Porcelain industry, which developed in the early 17th century. Although Imari originating in Japan the tern is used to describe a whole range of ceramics from all over the world, they are all linked by their bright distinctive palette of blue, red and gold. The cobalt that created the blue was added prior to glazing, while the iron-oxide red and the gilding were applied after glazing.