A JAPANESE KO-KUTANI SAUCER LATE 17TH CENTURY Painted in coloured enamels with a bird perched on...

A JAPANESE KO-KUTANI SAUCER

LATE 17TH CENTURY

Painted in coloured enamels with a bird perched on a flowering prunus branch, the reverse with two further prunus sprays, the base with a fuku mark, 14.6cm.

Provenance: a Dutch private collection, sold at Sotheby's Amsterdam, 27th October 1993, lot 499.

For another Ko-Kutani dish with similar decoration, see the Mary Griggs Burke Bequest at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, accession no.2015.79.291.