Japanese Arita Square Dish, Cheng Hua mark, circa 1880

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Japanese Arita Square Dish, Cheng Hua mark, circa 1880

A fine quality Japanese porcelain dish of square shape with chamfered corners and a wavy edge rim, the central well slightly sunk and the sides curving slightly upwards, the reverse with an unglazed circular foot rim, decorated to the front in underglaze blue with a typical landscape scene of a rocky outcrop with pavilions next to a lake in the foreground with mountains in the background, the border with alternating swastika and stylised flower head panels, the reverse with scrolling karakusa and a four character mark to the centre reading ‘Chenghua Nian Zhi’ or ‘Made in the Chenghua period’. Pieces like this decorated in underglaze blue were made in the potteries at Arita for export to the West in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This dish is an excellent example of the type, well painted and potted, with the rather unusually shaped edge rim. The Japanese artists sometimes optimistically marked their pieces as from the Chinese Cheng Hua period (1465–1487), a modest piece of whimsy intended to deceive nobody. The paste of the foot here indicates a circa date firmly in the nineteenth century, certainly to around 1880 and perhaps slightly before.
Size: 22.5cm x 22.5cm (26.5cm x 26.5cm at corners), Ht 3cm, Base 15cm
Weight: 720gm
Date: 1880
Condition: Excellent condition, no issues
Estimate: £40 – 60

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