Object Number: Finch 286

Collection: Eastern Art

Object Name: Dish

Description: Dish of porcelain with folate rim of eight shallow lobes. Design of lotus flower scrolls along rim, with three large white lotus flowers on blue scrolls on white. In the centre is an abstracted design of three lotus flowers pointing inwards between three blue leaves, the scrolls frame the lous in a trefoil. The underside is decorated with a continuous scroll in blue on white. Within the footring enclosed in a large circle is a spiral 'fuku' mark in a double square. There is a single spur mark on the base. A note on the base left by the collector, Irene Finch (1918-2019), reads: 'This seems to be 85/46 but not the real (similar) JS 36 - Which I cannot find. I early-mid. 85/46 A10 Revial? Shida? JS 36' This piece is referenced in: Finch, Irene. (1997) 'The Lost Century: Japanese Arita Porcelain 1720-1820 in Britain' in Nguyet, Tuyet. (ed) Arts of Asia: Masterpieces of Japanese Art in the Kyoto National Museum. Vol. 27, No.4 (July - August). Hong Kong: Arts of Asia Publications Ltd. pp.64-75 (Figure 7, p.68)