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Japanese Arita porcelain Imari pattern Bowl with Central Kirin & garden scenes ; Some-Nishiki ; double foot ring base ; antique late Edo period 19thC

Main image top down no background - Japanese Arita porcelain Imari pattern Bowl with Central Kirin & garden scenes - the base with double foot ring - antique late Edo period 19th C
Main image top down - Japanese Arita porcelain Imari pattern Bowl with Central Kirin & garden scenes - the base with double foot ring - antique late Edo period 19th C
side on pattern image - Japanese Arita porcelain Imari pattern Bowl with Central Kirin & garden scenes - the base with double foot ring - antique late Edo period 19th C
side view front - Japanese Arita porcelain Imari pattern Bowl with Central Kirin & garden scenes - the base with double foot ring - antique late Edo period 19th C
left side kikko - Japanese Arita porcelain Imari pattern Bowl with Central Kirin & garden scenes - the base with double foot ring - antique late Edo period 19th C
left side cartouche - Japanese Arita porcelain Imari pattern Bowl with Central Kirin & garden scenes - the base with double foot ring - antique late Edo period 19th C
side back kikko - Japanese Arita porcelain Imari pattern Bowl with Central Kirin & garden scenes - the base with double foot ring - antique late Edo period 19th C
side right back cartouche - Japanese Arita porcelain Imari pattern Bowl with Central Kirin & garden scenes - the base with double foot ring - antique late Edo period 19th C
side right front kikko - Japanese Arita porcelain Imari pattern Bowl with Central Kirin & garden scenes - the base with double foot ring - antique late Edo period 19th C
detail central image of the Kirin - Japanese Arita porcelain Imari pattern Bowl with Central Kirin & garden scenes - the base with double foot ring - antique late Edo period 19th C
detail garden landscape cartouche - Japanese Arita porcelain Imari pattern Bowl with Central Kirin & garden scenes - the base with double foot ring - antique late Edo period 19th C
detail lotus cartouche - Japanese Arita porcelain Imari pattern Bowl with Central Kirin & garden scenes - the base with double foot ring - antique late Edo period 19th C
Underside view of the base - Japanese Arita porcelain Imari pattern Bowl with Central Kirin & garden scenes - the base with double foot ring - antique late Edo period 19th C
Side on underside view of the base - Japanese Arita porcelain Imari pattern Bowl with Central Kirin & garden scenes - the base with double foot ring - antique late Edo period 19th C
Main image top down no background - Japanese Arita porcelain Imari pattern Bowl with Central Kirin & garden scenes - the base with double foot ring - antique late Edo period 19th C
Main image top down - Japanese Arita porcelain Imari pattern Bowl with Central Kirin & garden scenes - the base with double foot ring - antique late Edo period 19th C
side on pattern image - Japanese Arita porcelain Imari pattern Bowl with Central Kirin & garden scenes - the base with double foot ring - antique late Edo period 19th C
side view front - Japanese Arita porcelain Imari pattern Bowl with Central Kirin & garden scenes - the base with double foot ring - antique late Edo period 19th C
left side kikko - Japanese Arita porcelain Imari pattern Bowl with Central Kirin & garden scenes - the base with double foot ring - antique late Edo period 19th C
left side cartouche - Japanese Arita porcelain Imari pattern Bowl with Central Kirin & garden scenes - the base with double foot ring - antique late Edo period 19th C
side back kikko - Japanese Arita porcelain Imari pattern Bowl with Central Kirin & garden scenes - the base with double foot ring - antique late Edo period 19th C
side right back cartouche - Japanese Arita porcelain Imari pattern Bowl with Central Kirin & garden scenes - the base with double foot ring - antique late Edo period 19th C
side right front kikko - Japanese Arita porcelain Imari pattern Bowl with Central Kirin & garden scenes - the base with double foot ring - antique late Edo period 19th C
detail central image of the Kirin - Japanese Arita porcelain Imari pattern Bowl with Central Kirin & garden scenes - the base with double foot ring - antique late Edo period 19th C
detail garden landscape cartouche - Japanese Arita porcelain Imari pattern Bowl with Central Kirin & garden scenes - the base with double foot ring - antique late Edo period 19th C
detail lotus cartouche - Japanese Arita porcelain Imari pattern Bowl with Central Kirin & garden scenes - the base with double foot ring - antique late Edo period 19th C
Underside view of the base - Japanese Arita porcelain Imari pattern Bowl with Central Kirin & garden scenes - the base with double foot ring - antique late Edo period 19th C
Side on underside view of the base - Japanese Arita porcelain Imari pattern Bowl with Central Kirin & garden scenes - the base with double foot ring - antique late Edo period 19th C
Main image top down no background - Japanese Arita porcelain Imari pattern Bowl with Central Kirin & garden scenes - the base with double foot ring - antique late Edo period 19th C
Main image top down - Japanese Arita porcelain Imari pattern Bowl with Central Kirin & garden scenes - the base with double foot ring - antique late Edo period 19th C
side on pattern image - Japanese Arita porcelain Imari pattern Bowl with Central Kirin & garden scenes - the base with double foot ring - antique late Edo period 19th C
side view front - Japanese Arita porcelain Imari pattern Bowl with Central Kirin & garden scenes - the base with double foot ring - antique late Edo period 19th C
left side kikko - Japanese Arita porcelain Imari pattern Bowl with Central Kirin & garden scenes - the base with double foot ring - antique late Edo period 19th C
left side cartouche - Japanese Arita porcelain Imari pattern Bowl with Central Kirin & garden scenes - the base with double foot ring - antique late Edo period 19th C
side back kikko - Japanese Arita porcelain Imari pattern Bowl with Central Kirin & garden scenes - the base with double foot ring - antique late Edo period 19th C
side right back cartouche - Japanese Arita porcelain Imari pattern Bowl with Central Kirin & garden scenes - the base with double foot ring - antique late Edo period 19th C
side right front kikko - Japanese Arita porcelain Imari pattern Bowl with Central Kirin & garden scenes - the base with double foot ring - antique late Edo period 19th C
detail central image of the Kirin - Japanese Arita porcelain Imari pattern Bowl with Central Kirin & garden scenes - the base with double foot ring - antique late Edo period 19th C
detail garden landscape cartouche - Japanese Arita porcelain Imari pattern Bowl with Central Kirin & garden scenes - the base with double foot ring - antique late Edo period 19th C
detail lotus cartouche - Japanese Arita porcelain Imari pattern Bowl with Central Kirin & garden scenes - the base with double foot ring - antique late Edo period 19th C
Underside view of the base - Japanese Arita porcelain Imari pattern Bowl with Central Kirin & garden scenes - the base with double foot ring - antique late Edo period 19th C
Side on underside view of the base - Japanese Arita porcelain Imari pattern Bowl with Central Kirin & garden scenes - the base with double foot ring - antique late Edo period 19th C
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Japanese Arita porcelain Imari pattern Bowl with Central Kirin & garden scenes ; Some-Nishiki ; double foot ring base ; antique late Edo period 19thC

A very attractive hand painted antique Japanese porcelain bowl, decorated in a traditional Imari or Arita pattern with a Kirin and dating from the 19th century, in the late Edo Period.

The bowl is of a plain straight sided form with an unusual double foot ring to the base, nijū kōdai, the inner one to help reduce slumping in the kiln, this feature helps in dating the bowl to circa 1840 - 1870, in the late Edo Period. The inside of the bowl has been beautifully hand painted all over with a colourful and intricate Imari design of repeating lotus shaped cartouches in underglaze blue and overglaze polychrome enamel in iron red, green, purple, peach and black with gilding. Between the cartouches are garden scenes with prunus pine trees and palm trees in asymmetrical patterns with round windows with diamond (hishi) trellis. This style of decoration with an underglaze is referred to as Some-Nishiki.

The centre of the bowl features a central design of an underglaze blue Kirin (Qilin), a legendary hooved deer shaped creature with a dragons head, scales, mane and beard and a lion's tail. His chimeric body is emanating flames in iron red.

The outside the bowl is decorated with three cartouches filled with stylised flowers and leaves on an iron red background. The space in between these cartouches is painted in underglaze blue with a hexagonal tortoiseshell (亀甲) or Kikko pattern known as Kikkō hanabishi where the centre of the hexagons form flowers. There is a lower plain border with stylised flowers painted beneath the cartouches. The the outside of the main foot rim has two underglaze blue bands.

The bowl stands 2 3/4 inches ( 7 cm) high and the rim diameter is 8 5/8 inches ( 22 cm). The base diameter is 5 3/4 inches  ( 14.7 cm). It is in excellent antique condition with some wear to the gilding commensurate with age and use. There is some minor rubbing to the glaze in the base of the bowl, possibly from another item being stacked inside this one. No chips, cracks nor restoration. please see the images. It weighs 935 grammes unpacked.

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This is a highly collectable and decorative item and great for display on its own or as part of a collection of antique Japanese porcelain, Arita yaki or Imari ware.

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