Lot: 2927
Date of sale: 3. Thu Apr 2025
Bowl, w. Arita, Japan, Edo period, 17t
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Bowl, w. Arita, Japan, Edo period, 17th century, polychrome painting ”Shiba-Onko” motif, brown rim, flag with bats in bas-relief, 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. Ø 21 cm
Category: Watches
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