A FINE KAKIEMON DECAGONAL DISH decorated in iron-red, yellow, green, blue and black enamels and gilt with a ho-o bird perched in the branches of a plum tree with bamboo behind, another hovering to one side, the rim with a band of stylised flowerheads and foliage, chocolate rim, late 17th century

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A FINE KAKIEMON DECAGONAL DISH decorated in iron-red, yellow, green, blue and black enamels and gilt with a ho-o bird perched in the branches of a plum tree with bamboo behind, another hovering to one side, the rim with a band of stylised flowerheads and foliage, chocolate rim, late 17th century
22cm. diam.

Lot Essay

Cf. For similar examples see the Museum Het Princessehof, Leeuwarden, Luisa Ambrosio: Kakiemon e Imari Museo Duca di Martina, pl. 16, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, a pair, C3A and B1960
Reichel, Early Japanese Porcelain, 1980, p. 29
Shono, Arita Porzellan als Vorbild fur Meissen, 1973, pl. 53

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