A COLLECTION OF NINE JAPANESE BLUE AND WHITE DISHES

A COLLECTION OF NINE JAPANESE BLUE AND WHITE DISHES
EDO AND LATER, 17TH CENTURY AND LATER

Variously decorated with flowers, bamboo, waves, karakusa scrolls, and other formal designs; two a pair, one with a paper label reading 'The Lost Century Exhibition- 1998, Cambridge & Edinburgh, Loan number: 202'; another of irregular shape painted with bamboo over a stencilled star-like design, 21.3cm max. (9)

PLEASE NOTE THIS LOT IS TO BE OFFERED WITHOUT RESERVE.

Provenance: from the collection of Phillip Allen (1938-2022). See I Finch, The Lost Century, Japanese Arita Porcelain 1720-1820 in Britain: Selective Catalogue, p.34, no.202, where the dish with a paper label is illustrated and discussed, and the provenance from the collection of Phillip Allen is mentioned.

Exhibited: The Lost Century, the Fitzwilliam Museum (Cambridge) and the National Museum of Scotland (Edinburgh), 1998, no.202.