AN EARLY ARITA BLUE AND WHITE BALUSTER VASE decorated with a scene of a pair of ho-o birds in flight above blossoming peony, prunus and sprays of autumnal grasses, a floral scroll encircling the shoulder beneath a band of stylized banana plantain on the straight neck and a ring of karakusa scrolls towards the foot, within the circular foot rim a bird perched on a branch depicted in black and green enamels, disguising a firing crack (some old damage), late 17th century