A BLUE AND WHITE PORCELAIN BOWL Japan, 19^th century

The Japanese Arita porcelain bowl of concave form with a slightly everted rim and recessed foot, painted in an underglaze cobalt blue, depicting a theatre scene.

DIAMETER 15 cm

Condition: Good condition with traces of use and wear, minor firing flaws.
Provenance: Holzapfel collection, Geneva, Switzerland. The greater part of the Holzapfel Oriental Ceramics collection was formed in England and Ireland in the late 1950s and 1960s. After the death of Mr. Holzapfel, most of his pieces went to his children, ten in all. Two of Mr. Holzapfel's eldest sons then started their own collections in the early 1970s, both by adding significantly to their shares of the inheritance. Collecting was eventually continued by one of Mr. Holzapfel’s grandsons, who lives in Switzerland and is a member of the Oriental Ceramic Society. This lot was acquired by Mr. Holzapfel before 1970 and has been in the Holzapfel family ever since.