Round dish decorated with beauties, housemaids, dragon and phoenix

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This dish was produced in the workshops of the Akaemachi quarter of Arita. It is decorated in typical Arita enamel colours with motifs of a dragon, a phoenix and a group of beauties and their female companions, one of whom breastfeeds a baby.

date:	c. 1859
measurements:	depth 54 cm
material:	Porcelain
technique:	Painted in underglaze cobalt blue and overglaze enamels and gold
inscription:	unsigned
inventory number:	Vu 4339
gallery collection:	Collection of Asian and African Art

Round dish decorated with beauties, housemaids, dragon and phoenix

Anonymous artist

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