Imari âeoeBlack Shipâe plate

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Imari âeoeBlack Shipâe plate

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Sold Date: 10/21/2007
Channel: Online Auction
Source: eBay
Category: Ethnic, Folk & Native American Art

Imari âeoeBlackShipâe plate
Meiji Period 1868-1912

Exquisite and authentic antique Imari âeoeBlack Shipâe plate dating to the 19th century (Meiji Period 1868-1912) features a detailed brocade background with Black Ship decoration. Measures 8 inches (21cm) in diameter. The black ship design Imari porcelain depicts European or Dutch trade ships that began trading with Japan sometime around the early 17th century. Plate is in excellent condition, with extensive use of gilt. This highly sought and coveted work will be a wonderful addition to the serious Imari collector. Condition: perfect!

The term "Imari", for the Japanese export porcelain we identify by that name, is strictly generic. It covers many different porcelains, such as Arita wares which were mainly blue-and-white, as well as polychrome enamel porcelain made by an assortment of potters. The wares were shipped through the Northern Kyushu port of Imari, from w they derive their name.

In the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries in Japan, few events would have been greeted with more anticipation and curiosity, and few sights would have appeared more exotic and astonishing, than the annual arrival at the port of Nagasaki of the nau, or the great black ship. This event signaled the sanctioned advent of Portuguese traders seeking favorable conditions of business and of Jesuit priests seeking to propagate the faith, accompanied by an ethnically diverse retinue of ordinary Europeans, Malays, Moors, and Goanese. The Portuguese had initiated direct trade and cultural contacts with Japan by 1543, and their ships were permitted to call at Japan until 1639, when the shogun restricted access to all but the Chinese and the Dutch. The Portuguese brought with them, among other objects of curiosity fine Chinese silks, which they had obtained through their colony at Macao and which they eagerly traded for Japanese silver. Thus, early on, the inter-Asian trade included European as well as Asi an players. The presence of the Portuguese Nambanjin, or "barbarians from the south," became of such cultural significance in Japan in these years that the annual arrival of the great ship was memorialized in a genre of screen painting called Namban byobu, or folding screens as well as on the famous âezblack ship platesâeoe.

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