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Blue & White Peacocks Arita Ware Bowl & Base

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:50.00 USD Estimated At:100.00 - 200.00 USD
Blue & White Peacocks Arita Ware Bowl & Base
Offered in this lot is a Vintage Blue & White Peacocks Arita Ware Bowl and Carved Wood Base, circa Mid-Century. Arita ware, was first created about 400 years ago. It's said that in 1616 Ri Sanpei, a ceramist who came to Japan from Korea, discovered a deposit of porcelain stone at Izumiyama in Arita (present-day Arita-machi, Saga Prefecture) and made the first porcelain piece in Japan using this material. Arita ware (Japanese: ???, Hepburn: Arita-yaki) is a broad term for Japanese porcelain made in the area around the town of Arita, in the former Hizen Province, northwestern Kyushu island. It is also known as Hizen ware (???, Hizen-yaki) after the wider area of the province. This was the area where the great majority of early Japanese porcelain, especially Japanese export porcelain, was made. In English usage "Arita ware" was traditionally used for the export wares in blue and white porcelain, mostly copying Chinese styles. The Japanese export porcelain destined for Europe often using Western shapes and Chinese decoration. This Arita Ware bowl is in nice overall condition, normal use edge wear noted to base, no other obvious marring exhibited. Measures 10" diameter mouth, 5.25" base diameter, 5.25"H. Wood base is 8.5" diameter, 1.75"H