A CONTEMPORARY SHINO STYLE DISH

(20TH CENTURY), SIGNED RO [KITAOJI ROSANJIN (1883-1959)]

Details
A CONTEMPORARY SHINO STYLE DISH
(20th century), signed ro [kitaoji rosanjin (1883-1959)]
Circular, with a shallow well, flat rim and set on three pyramidal feet, decorated in underglaze-blue with a crow standing above a bar of cross-hatched lines of iron-brown within a net-like border of linked triangles and crosses, the underside of the flat rim designed with alternating triangles of green and yellow enamel on a ground of iron-brown, the rounded base within the enamel border covered by a transparent glaze as in the cavetto, signed in yellow enamel on the base with the katakana syllable Ro
9 5/8in. (24.5cm.) diameter
Provenance
Sidney B. Cardozo (purchased from the artist)