A 17th Century Japanese Porcelain Dish
A Japanese 17th century blue and white porcelain dish, Arita Kilns c.1670-1690. The well is decorated with six pine trees deep in snow on a hill or mountainside. The sides of this Japanese porcelain dish are vertical, the exterior is painted with Karakusa scrolls.
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- Condition
- No damaged. There is a firing crack to the back which runs around a large part of circumference.
- Size
- Diameter : 13.4cm (5 1/2 inches)
- Provenance
- An English Private Collection of Chinese and Japanese Porcelain.
- Stock number
- 25042
- References
- For a similar Japanese dish decorated with five pine trees see : Complete Catalogue of Shibata Collection (Kyushu Ceramic Museum,2003) page 201, plate 1551.