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A Japanese Blue and Light Celadon Dish with Horse browse these categories for related items... All Items: Antiques:Regional Art:Asian:Japanese:Porcelain: Pre 1900: item # 894620 Please refer to our stock # ICHI 3035 when inquiring.
Ichiban Japanese & Oriental Antiques Post Office Box 395 Marion, CT 06444-0395 203.272.7392 Guest Book $295.00 |
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This is a fine small Japanese light celadon dish with underglaze light cobalt blue design of a horse under an encircling evergreen tree. The design is loosely drawn giving it a folk look. On the underside, the bottom within the short foot is unglazed and there is a four-character mark in underglaze blue. The characters have been translated as "Manreki Nensei" (Japanese), "Wanli Year made"(Chinese). The Wanli period was 1563-1620, however we believe the reign mark to be an honorific apocryphal mark and that the dish dates from the late Edo to early Meiji period, circa 1840-1880s. It is in excellent condition. The dish measures 5" diameter and is 1" deep. The glaze is characterized by thousands of tiny bubbles. This glaze on this dish was improved by reducing the amount of flux in the glaze, which allow it to mature at a higher temperature enabling more of the residual batch material to be dissolved in the glaze during firing. This produced a smooth glossy glaze with minute bubbles evenly distributed. This gives the glaze its much admired unctuous jade like texture, while the tiny bubbles produce a soft appearance without masking or distorting any decorating beneath |
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