A JAPANESE ARITA MOULDED DISHEDO PERIOD, 17TH/18TH CENTURYThe pentalobed nigoshide (milky white) body with a brown rim and moulded with a scene of two scholars seated in a veranda, laughing at a third figure dancing in the garden before them, the design possibly inspired by a Chinese print, with moulded maple leaves to the cavetto, raised on a short foot and the base with three spur marks, 18.8cm. Provenance: an English private collection formed in the 1960s.Cf. R Soame Jenyns, Japanese Porcelain, pl.72A, for a comparable example of a moulded dish from the Mr and Mrs Richard de la Mare Collection.