TWO JAPANESE ARITA BLUE AND WHITE DISHES

TWO JAPANESE ARITA BLUE AND WHITE DISHES

MEIJI PERIOD, 19TH OR 20TH CENTURY

Both decorated in underglaze blue; the first depicting a tiger baring its fangs and standing four-square in a bamboo grove; the other with pine trees before Mount Fuji on a cracked-ice ground, 31cm and 28cm respectively. (2)

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.