A LOBBED KAKIEMON PORCELAIN DISH Japan, 19^th century

The lobed kakiemon dish delicately painted in underglaze blue as well as with polychrome enamels, the show side depicting blossoming sprays of flowers. The backside decorated with stylized prunus sprays and a mark in the center.

DIAMETER 14.8 cm

Condition: Good condition with traces of use and wear, minor firing flaws. A repaired and filled chip to one part of the loped edge of the rim with a related hairline.
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.