Antique Japanese Imari Sometsuke Blue White Porcelain Bowl Kiku Hanazume Late Edo 19th 8"W Byoubu This suzuribako (portable calligraphy tansu)

This suzuribako (portable calligraphy tansu) has two drawers and a lidded top section

Dimensions: approximately 4

xīshuài fáng) of fan-sector form

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the summer of Nobunaga’s Okehazama campaign

Antique Japanese Imari Sometsuke Blue White Porcelain Bowl Kiku Hanazume Late Edo 19th 8"W Byoubu This suzuribako (portable calligraphy tansu)Japanese Imari blue and white porcelain bowl, allover kiku hanazume interior with karakusa rim band, landscape exterior, late Edo period Japan, Arita; late Edo period, c. 1840s1860s A striking Imari sometsuke () bowl decorated in the kiku hanazume () manner, the entire interior surface packed with large chrysanthemum heads rendered in fine, densely ruled radiating petal lines on a deep cobalt ground a treatment that reverses the usual figure ground