A KAKIEMON DISH
Edo Period (Late 17th Century)
Decorated in iron-red, green, yellow, blue and black enamels with a bird swooping down to branches of plum and bamboo, chocolate rim, six spur marks
24.7cm. diam.
Lot Essay
There is a wide variety of dishes the milky-white nigoshide body that bear similar decoration of birds and overhanging trees; this rare and unusual pattern is more sparse than most.