A SET OF FIVE JAPANESE BLUE AND WHITE DISHES

A SET OF FIVE JAPANESE BLUE AND WHITE DISHES

EDO PERIOD, 18TH CENTURY

All decorated in underglaze blue with the same auspicious design of the shochikubai (bamboo, prunus and pine), all approx. 18.3cm. (5)

Provenance: from the collection of the late Gas Kimishima, wood-fire potter and specialist in the ancient kilns of Japan, purchased in Japan and thence by descent. Gas established his studio in England and built his own anagama kiln in Tring, Hertfordshire.