Lot: 2169
Date of sale: 29. Thu Aug 2024
Arita Bowl, Edo period, Japan, octagon
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Arita Bowl, Edo period, Japan, octagonal bowl with polychrome Kakiemon painting in enamel colors, ornamental gilding, ”Shiba Onko” decoration. Mirror-filling scene with two figures, a third in a large vessel, bamboo on the right, three birds on the left. A chinoise flower-leaf border around the flag, brown rim, The depiction shows a story from the childhood of the Chinese historian Sima Guang (1019 – 1086), whose name is Shiba Onko in Japanese, which has been handed down as a ”water tank story”. He saved a playmate from drowning who had fallen into a carp tank by destroying the vessel with a stone throw. The decoration was produced in Arita from 1670 and copied exactly in Meissen after 1729. Firing cracks, adhesive label ‘Gingsburg & Ley, NY’, Ø 27.5 cm
Category: Porcelain Part I
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