AN UNUSUAL BLUE AND WHITE ARITA OVOID VASE painted on the main face with a seated bijin reading a lettre, the other side with a shaped panel of blossoming trees issuing from rockwork in a fenced garden all beneath a band of stiff lappets at the foot, a band of flower-heads and scrollwork at the shoulder (base star crack), late 17th Century

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AN UNUSUAL BLUE AND WHITE ARITA OVOID VASE painted on the main face with a seated bijin reading a lettre, the other side with a shaped panel of blossoming trees issuing from rockwork in a fenced garden all beneath a band of stiff lappets at the foot, a band of flower-heads and scrollwork at the shoulder (base star crack), late 17th Century
22cm. high

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