A LARGE IMARI JAR AND COVER decorated in gilt, iron-red and pink enamels on underglaze-blue with a cockerel, hen and chicks before two pavilions beside chrysanthemum, a blossoming prunus tree and peony below a pair of flying ho-o birds in a fenced garden, below a band of stylized foliage and scrolling flower-sprays at the shoulder, the neck with a band of lozenge-shaped floral cartouches on a demi-kiku ground, the domed cover similarly decorated and surmounted by a knop finial (glaze cracks), late 17th Century