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Auction Location:
Melbourne
Date:
19-Oct-2021
Lot No.
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Description:
A Japanese Ai Kakiemon 'Van Frijtom' dish, Edo period (1603-1868), 1690-1710, of barbed floriate form, finely decorated in underglaze blue with figures, pagoda and fishing boats within a lakeside landscape, the rim dressed with iron enamel 'Fuchi beni' (lipstick) glaze. Hana karakusa design to verso, with a Kakiemon fuku mark to the base. Single spur mark to base. Together with a copy of the exhibition catalogue, 15.8 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, Exhibitions: 'Kakiemon in Australia', Hamilton Art gallery, 2014, item 9, Literature: Eva Strober, Le Maladie de Porcelaine, East Asian porcelain from the collection of Augustus the strong, 2001, plate 70, a dish of this pattern with an inventory date of 172, C. J.A. Jorg, fine and Curious, Japanese export porcelain in Dutch Collections, 2003, plate 168, for the mark, Menno Fitski, Kakiemon porcelain, 2011, page 164.
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Category:
Oriental: Ceramics - Japanese