JAPON, ÉPOQUE EDO, XVIIÈME-XVIIIÈME SIÈCLE

Collectors around the world have long appreciated the flawless glaze and stunning designs of Nabeshima wares. There are more than 100 examples in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, many on exhibition in the 2015 exhibition “Discovering Japanese Art: American Collectors and the Met.” Americans who honeymooned in Japan in the late nineteenth century played a major role in augmenting the Met’s collections. For a discussion of Nabeshima in collection of the Metropolitan Museum, see Monika Bincsik, "An Appreciation of Nabeshima," Impressions 37 (2016), journal of the Japanese Art Society of America, www.japaneseartcos.org.
For dishes with the same design, see Asahi Shinbun, ed., Les Cadeaux au Shogun; Porcelaine Précieuse des Seigneurs de Nabeshima, exh. cat. (Tokyo: Asahi Shinbunsha, 1997), pls. 64 and 65.