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An Edo Arita Plate Bird in Landscape Kraak Style browse these categories for related items... All Items: Antiques:Regional Art:Asian:Japanese:Porcelain: Pre 1837 VR: item # 977700 Please refer to our stock # ICHI 1071 when inquiring.
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This is a very fine 17th 18th century Arita dish made by the Japanese in the Kraak style of design. This is a particularly elegant example with the wide border of dimpled depressions, a band of separated blue squares and its ruffled rim. Inside this lovely white frame is the main design in underglaze cobalt blue of a bird eagle? phoenix ? flying amongst very thick underbrush and trees with a small swirling pool of water at the bottom. The bottom of the plate has the reverse of the two bands of dimples on the top and a band surrounds the foot with a blue connected elongated circles. There is a considerable amount of kiln grit inside the foot that is picked up by having lain flat inside the sandy based kiln. The plate is in excellent condition with no cracks of chips. It measures 8 diameter and is 1 ½ high at the rim. We date it to the 17th century to very early 18th century, Edo period. Kraak porcelain is believed to be named after the Portuguese ships (Carracks), in which it was transported. Kraak ware is almost all painted in the underglazed cobalt blue style that was perfected under the Ming dynasty. Kraak was copied and imitated all over the world, by potters in Arita, Japan and Persiawhere Dutch merchants turned when the fall of the Ming Dynasty rendered Chinese originals unavailable. |
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