A Pair Japanese Export Black Lacquered Wood Plates - Edo period 1700

Unknown artist

ø 30 cm
ConditionMinor damages
€ 6.000

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• About the artwork
  A pair of light circular plates of lacquered wood (urushi), modeled with swallow, flaring and rounded sides and a flat rim with engrossed edge. Decorated in pictorial style with gold lacquer (maki-e). The centre decorated in flat and low relief (tahamaki-e) with imaginary landscape scenes with trees, rockwork and water. The flat rim is decorated with a typical border of endless pearl (shippôtsungi) in gold lacquer. Standing on a short foot-ring. These plates were made to be exported to Europe at the end of the 17th and early 18th Century.
  
  Other similar plates are in:
  The Collection of Her Majesty the Queen, London
  The Collection of the Groningen Museum (inv.no. 1978.447)
  Peabody Essex Museum in Salem
  Palazzo Pitti, Florence., and others
  
  Literature:
  Jorge Welsh/L.Vinais After the Barbarians. Namban Works of Art for the Japanese, Portuguese and Dutch Market. Lisbon, 2008. p.334. no. 47
  O.Impey / C.Jörg. Japanese Export Lacquer. 1580-1850. p.117. no.420.
• About the artist

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