A SMALL JAPANESE KAKIEMON BOWL

A SMALL JAPANESE KAKIEMON BOWL
EDO PERIOD, 17TH/18TH CENTURY

Delicately painted in gilt and polychrome enamels, one side with a flowering prunus tree and the reverse with sprays of peony; the base with a paper collection label reading '1084' and another for 'Robert McPherson Antiques, 25794', 10cm; together with a tomobako (wood box). (2)

Provenance: an English private collection, purchased from Robert McPherson Antiques, 27th January 2022; a copy of the original invoice is available. By repute, previously in the collection of Soame Jenyns, Deputy Keeper of Asian Antiquities at the British Museum, author of reference books on Japanese Porcelain (1965) and Japanese Pottery (1971).