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A Japanese Arita blue and white and moulded charger, Edo period…
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Melbourne
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19-Oct-2021
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A Japanese Arita blue and white and moulded charger, Edo period (1603-1868), circa 1780, with a barbed and lobed everted rim, the interior decorated with peonies emerging from rocks, the cavetto with moulded relief decoration of dragons chasing flaming pearls. Peach sprays to the reverse, with a kaku fuku mark to the base, 32.5 cm diameter. Provenance: The Genine Wallinga collection, Genine Wallinga is the current president of the ceramics & glass circle of Australia, and has been collecting European 18th century ceramics and Japanese Ko-Imari ceramics from Arita of the 17th and 18th centuries for the last 20 years. Her connoisseurship has led her to focus on early Edo period Kakiemon porcelain, one of the great technological and artistic achievements in Japanese ceramic history, of which a number are offered in this collection.
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Oriental: Ceramics - Japanese