Japanese Kakiemon fluted 'two boys' saucer dish, 17th century

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Japanese Kakiemon fluted 'two boys' saucer dish, 17th century

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Description

Japanese Kakiemon fluted 'two boys' saucer dish, 17th century, with fluted rim, decorated with a seated boy holding a fan, facing another boy standing against a flower-vase, with two birds in flight overhead.

Dimensions:

Diameter: 14.5cm. (5 3/4in.)

Condition:

Minute frits to rim, very small chip to rim restored

Notes:
A teabowl and saucer with the same pattern can be found in the silver necessaire of Marie Leczinska in the Louvre, Paris. Meissen copies of this saucer dish can be found in a number of European Collections such as the Hoffmeister in Hamburg and the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, an illustrated example can be seen in; den Blauuwen, Abraham L., 'Meissen Porcelain in the Rijksmuseum', p. 251, pl. 182. A Chantilly dish with this pattern is illustrated in 'The Lady Cynthia Postan Collection' Exhibition Catalogue (2015), pl. 19. For a Meissen copy of this design

柿右衛門「二人の少年」皿、17世紀、エナメルで装飾され、扇を持つ座った少年と花瓶を持つもう一人の少年が向かい合っており、頭上には鳥が飛んでいる。 縁に微細なフリット、縁にごく小さな欠けの修復。

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Material and Technique Porcelain with overglaze enamel decoration
Origin Japanese
Period 17th Century
Condition Very good
Diameter 14.5cm. (5 3/4in.)

Product REF: Y623