A Japanese Arita blue and white 'map' dish, Edo period, circa 1830-1843

Moulded and painted with a map of Japan bordered by labelled islands and sections of four other countries, the Land of the Dwarves, the Land of Women, the Ryukyu Kingdom and Korea, surrounded by seas and the ocean, the base with a four-character Tempo nen sei mark

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Dimensions: 28cm wide

A comparable dish was sold at Christie's South Kensington, 11 May 2011, lot 124.

For two other map dishes in the collection of the Kyushu Ceramic Museum, see Robert Singer et al., 'Edo: Art in Japan 1615-1868', exh. cat. (Washington, D. C.: National Gallery of Art, 1998), pls. 141, 142