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45/1969 Soup plate Arita, Japan ca. 1700 Porcelain with overglaze decoration in enamel colours, iron red and gold. H.9.5, Diam:26. In the second half of the 17th century China was hit by domestic troubles in connexion with the decline of the Ming dynasty. As a result, the young Japanese porce­ lain industry prospered and its products were now exported to Europe. Most popular, perhaps, was Kakiemon porcelain, characterized by a blue/blue- green/red colour scale named ajter afamily ofpotters in the Arita region. The scene illustrated is the tale of how the Chinese statesman Ssu-ma Kuang as a boy saved a child that had fallen into a fish-bowl from drowning by breaking the bowl with a stone. The popularity of the motif can be judged from the imitations in the Museum’s possession: a) Chinese porcelain decorated in Holland, beginning of the 18th century, b) Meissen, ca. 1730, and c) Chelsea 1753- 58, where it was translated, rather misleadingly, as “Hob in the Well”.

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