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Arita, Hizen province [Japan]
Four dishes 1670-90
Porcelain painted in underglaze blue | 3.0 x 22.0 x 22.0 cm (diameter) | RCIN 1765
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A set of Japanese porcelain dishes, saucer-shaped, with a ten-pointed rim with brown-glazed edge. Painted across the face is a scene with two Chinese scholars in a pavilion under a pine tree; another scholar accompanied by a boy is approaching over a bridge. Round the outside is a leafy scroll border, and on the base, a single blue ring and square mark, fuku (good fortune).
An identical dish from the same famous early eighteenth-century collection of Augustus II ‘the Strong’ at Dresden was among a group presented by Queen Victoria to the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1860 (Mus. No. 7331-1860).
Text adapted from Chinese and Japanese Works of Art in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen: Volume II.Provenance
Augustus II ‘the Strong’, Elector of Saxony and King of Poland, by 1741. On each base, the engraved inventory mark of Augustus II ‘The Strong’, ‘N: 469’ over a wavy line, picked out in black. It seems likely these were acquired through family connections in Germany.
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Medium and techniques
Porcelain painted in underglaze blue
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3.0 x 22.0 x 22.0 cm (diameter)
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