Large Japanese Fluted Circular Form Imari Deep Cabinet Bowl or Centerpiece of outstanding quality and generous proportions, made during the last half of the Nineteenth Century by Koransha Potteries.
Extensively hand decorated with all over typical decorative Imari style palette in colours of iron red and dark blues on an off-white ground with lavish gold overglaze, the wavy rimmed edge with gilt highlights. The central reserve is beautifully enhanced with a bottle vase of Summer Flowers in Chinese taste with the use of blue and white colours.
Condition: Superb condition for such an early piece with no restoration anywhere, the entire rims are perfect, very light evidence of gentle use.
Blue Mountain Mark of Fukazawa Koransha to base.
Height: 3.75” (9.5cm). Diameter: 11” (28cm).