A KAKIEMON SQUARE DISH

FUKU MARK, EDO PERIOD (LATE 17TH CENTURY)

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A KAKIEMON SQUARE DISH
Fuku Mark, Edo period (Late 17th Century)
Decorated in iron-red, green, blue, yellow and black enamels and gilt on underglaze blue with a cockerel and a hen within a border with dragons among scrolling clouds and sprays of peony and foliage, the reverse with peony blossom and scrolling foliage, chocolate rim, some old wear
8in. (20.3cm.) long

Lot Essay

For a Bow example dating around 1755, see Anton Gabszewicz and Geoffrey Freeman, Bow Porcelain, (Lund Humphries, London, 1982), no.56. A Kakiemon example is illustrated in Eastern Ceramics from the Collection of Gerald Reitlinger, (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1981).

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