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This is also true of the stylised camelllia devices on the dish's underside and the combed pattern on the high footring. The use of spur marks is not, however, found, on true Nabeshima wares, which are also usually characterised by the application of enamel colours within outlines painted in underglaze blue (doucai) - a feature not found on this dish. These suggest that the dish is a late eighteenth or early nineteenth century product made at a commercial kiln in the Arita area for a market in search of affordable reworkings of a famous ceramic style.\r\n\r\nIrene Finch commentary:\r\nDish with Classical Nabeshima comb foot, in Post-Classical / Late Classical Nabeshima style with decorated narrow flat rim and painting style no longer doucai, but more 'free'. A spur mark shows it to be Arita, a fake copy 18th-19th century. The design is a basket with two crackled urns, a begonia flower and an unknown flowering branch. [Hirado make the most common fakes, in the rigid Classical style, but with the typical Hirado non-green glaze]","physicalDescription":"Dish, round; porcelain, painted with two flower-filled urns in a basket, border of ruyi heads.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Unknown","id":"A1848"},"association":{"text":"","id":""},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"porcelain","id":"AAT10662"},{"text":"cobalt oxide","id":"AAT233422"},{"text":"enamel","id":"AAT14910"}],"techniques":[{"text":"painted","id":"AAT54216"},{"text":"glazed","id":"AAT53914"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Porcelain painted in underglaze blue and overglaze enamels","categories":[{"text":"Porcelain","id":"THES48907"},{"text":"Ceramics","id":"THES48982"}],"styles":[{"text":"Edo","id":"AAT106643"},{"text":"Polychrome","id":"x44055"}],"collectionCode":{"text":"EAS","id":"THES48596"},"images":["2010EA8508"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"137 (VA)","id":"THES49876"},"free":"","case":"21","shelf":"3","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"dish","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Arita","id":"x31992"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1770-1830","earliest":"1770-01-01","latest":"1830-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"Given by Miss Irene Finch, IF collection no. 85/18","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"5.1","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Diameter","value":"21.5","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"Dimensions taken directly from object","marksAndInscriptions":[],"objectHistory":"Irene Finch note, 2009: Finch 85/18  FE 68-2006\r\nDish with Classical Nabeshima comb foot, potted and decorated in Post Classical/Late Classical style with a narrow flat border and looser painting style, no longer doucai. The picture represents a basket with crackled urns containing a begonia and an unknown plant branch.\r\nRelevance to history\r\nThe spur mark shows it to be an Arita copy, late 18-early 19th C. In 2003 a similar sherd was accepted by the Nabeshima Research Soc. as Nabeshima (Seminar notes Feb 2003, Kyushu, p.111 top, no spur mark visible), as were several sherds related to a different example (Finch 91/31, number 41 on this list). Faking was worthwhile, knowledge still very limited. Published Finch KoNabeshima 2006, as 7k, in section 111K.","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Cer, Japan, Arita, polychrome\r\nDish, round; Nabeshima related\r\nIrene Finch gift, 85/18","bibliographicReferences":[],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[{"text":"ruyi","id":"x40928"},{"text":"flowers","id":"x35571"},{"text":"vases","id":"AAT132254"},{"text":"baskets","id":"AAT194498"}],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["FE.68-2006"],"accessionNumberNum":"68","accessionNumberPrefix":"FE","accessionYear":2006,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-04-21","recordCreationDate":"2009-05-22","availableToBook":false}}