JAPON, fours d'Arita, décor Kakiemon, réalisé au Pays-Bas - Lot 174

JAPON, fours d'Arita, décor Kakiemon, réalisé au Pays-Bas Octagonal porcelain dish decorated in polychrome enamel overglaze with a scene from an 11th-century Chinese story depicting Sima Guang (Shiba onko in Japanese). It relates an episode from the childhood of this famous Chinese statesman, who had the presence of mind to seize stones and throw them at a jar, breaking the latter and draining the water that would have drowned a child who had fallen into it. In this scene, a third character tries in vain to get the boy out of the vase. They are surrounded by bamboo and birds. Flowers and foliage on the wing. Probably executed in the Netherlands around 1710-1720. 17th century, circa 1670-1690 (two tiny chips around the edge). D : 27.5 cm Similar decorations: - Ashmolean Museum, Oxford reproduced in Japanese export porselain by Oliver Impey, page 157 plate 229. - Burghley House, collection of the Marquis of Exeter (Stamford, England). England). - Groninger Museum (Netherlands). - Idemitsu Museum (Japan). - Kyushu Ceramic Museum (Japan). Known in several sizes (from 20 to 28 cm in diameter), this model was very successful in Europe, and was copied in Meissen, Germany as early as 1730, then in England in Chelsea from 1755. A Dutch overdecoration on Chinese porcelain circa 1725 is also known.