A JAPANESE ARITA BLUE AND WHITE DISH 18TH CENTURY The well decorated with the Three Friends of...

A JAPANESE ARITA BLUE AND WHITE DISH

18TH CENTURY

The well decorated with the Three Friends of Winter (pine, bamboo and prunus) emerging from behind a wall decorated with a checkered pattern of flowerheads, the shallow body with a short rim painted with formal waves, the reverse with three beribboned coin clusters, a four character Chenghua mark, 18.3cm.

Provenance: previously the collection of Soame Jenyns (1904-1976), Assistant Keeper of Oriental Antiquities at the British Museum (1931-1967). Jenyns published many books on Chinese and Japanese ceramics which are now considered references. Now the property of an English gentleman.