A KAKIEMON TEABOWL AND SAUCER decorated in various coloured enamels and gilt with a bijin enraptured by a nightingale which is perched on a cage beneath an awning, the interior with a five-pointed floret, chocolate rim (kuchibeni), (saucer damaged), circa 1680

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A KAKIEMON TEABOWL AND SAUCER decorated in various coloured enamels and gilt with a bijin enraptured by a nightingale which is perched on a cage beneath an awning, the interior with a five-pointed floret, chocolate rim (kuchibeni), (saucer damaged), circa 1680
11.5 cm., teabowl 7 cm. (2)

Lot Essay

Cf. Burghley House Catalogue, pl. 59

For a similar octagonal example see Porcelain for Palaces, 1990, No. 127

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