A JAPANESE AI-KAKIEMON DISH

A JAPANESE AI-KAKIEMON DISH
EDO PERIOD (1615-1868), 17TH/18TH CENTURY

The decagonal body decorated in underglaze blue with a lady and her attendant in a river landscape, with palm trees beside them and a flowering prunus tree above; a man observing them from a small boat moored to the side; the rim painted with a border of lappets and with a brown edge; the reverse with karakusa scrolls and a fuku mark to the base, 33cm; together with another dish of the same design. (2)

Cf. Akinori Hiwatashi, Kyushu Ceramics Museum exhibition of The Shibata Collection, Part 5, no. 95, p.177 for a related dish.