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Monumental Japanese Arita Imari Porcelain Dish
Monumental Japanese Arita Imari Porcelain Dish
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Description
Monumental Japanese Arita Imari Porcelain Dish, Late Meiji or Taisho Period. Painted and gilt in the center with a roundel enclosing a dragon chasing the fiery pearl, surrounded by three panels depicting figures in a pleasure boat, cranes and cherry trees, and exotic birds amidst flowers and fruit, all within cobalt blue borders gilt with cranes, reserved with red and white mons gilt with cranes, alternating with blue and red trellis diaper borders, the reverse with blossoms, fruit and vinery above a stylized leaftip border, Fuki Choshun four-character good luck mark in underglaze-blue.H: 4.75 in., Diam: 30.25 in.Provenance: Property from the Collection of Cortlandt and Nancy Knowles Parker, descendants of William Gray (a Salem merchant and Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts), Jonathan and Susannah Powell Mason, Patrick and Anna Powell Mason Grant, Morris Gray (President of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1914-24) and Flora Grant Gray, and Major-General Cortlandt and Elizabeth Gray Parker. Spanning multiple styles and periods across the categories of furniture, fine and decorative arts, the collection has been housed in the family home, Greenvale Farm Estate and Vineyard, Portsmouth, Rhode Island, for six generations. Boston China Trade merchant John Sargent Barstow purchased 53 acres of land on the Sakonnet River during the early 1860’s and hired the prominent Boston architect John Hubbard Sturgis to design the main house, stable and barn. The historic Stick style home with Gothic elements was constructed from 1864 to 1865 by Edmond Coggeshall of Portsmouth, Rhode Island.
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Dimensions
4.75 x 30.25 x 30.25 in
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Monumental Japanese Arita Imari Porcelain Dish

Estimate $500 - $700
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Starting Price $250
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