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A pair of Japanese cloisonné enamel Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove dishes, Meiji period, one dish decorated with three scholars and the second with four scholars amid bamboo, on a blue sky ground, brocade patterned borders, the reverse decorated with a central sixteen petal chrysanthemum mon, within lotus flower and scrolling tendril borders, 30.2cm diameter.
This subject relates to seven famous Chinese Daoist scholars and is a popular subject in Chinese art but unusual to see in Japanese decorative arts.
A pair of Japanese cloisonné enamel ?Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove? dishes, Meiji period, one dish decorated with three scholars and the second with four scholars amid bamboo, on a blue sky ground, brocade patterned borders, the reverse decorated with a central sixteen petal chrysanthemum mon, within lotus flower and scrolling tendril borders, 30.2cm diameter.
This subject relates to seven famous Chinese Daoist scholars and is a popular subject in Chinese art but unusual to see in Japanese decorative arts.
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