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A Japanese Ai Kakiemon blue and white crane and Minogame dish,…
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Melbourne
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19-Oct-2021
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A Japanese Ai Kakiemon blue and white crane and Minogame dish, Edo period (1603-1868), 1680-1700, with floriate form rim, decorated to the interior with a minogame on an island with a crane flying overhead, with warabi karakusa design and four butterflies to the cavetto, the rim dressed in iron brown fuchi beni (lipstick) enamel. Four spur marks and a Kakiemon 'Kin' mark to the base, 19 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, Literature: Kazuo Seki, beauty of Prime period Imari, 1990, items 120 and 122.
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Oriental: Ceramics - Japanese