Dish
Category
Ceramics
Date
1740
Materials
Ceramic
Place of origin
Arita
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Wallington, Northumberland
NT 581632
Summary
A pair of old Japanese porcelain dishes, decorated in the Imari style in underglaze blue and rouge-de-fer with a central panel of prunus blossoms and bamboo; the cavetto decorated with flower heads and bamboo in green, rouge-de-fer and gold enamels. Spurious six character mark on the base of the Emperor Ch'eng Hua (A.D. 1465-1487), but eighteenth century. K'Ang Hsi period.
Provenance
Gift from Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan 3rd Bt