A JAPANESE OCTAGONAL KAKIEMON BOWL

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

Elegantly painted with two large ho-o birds in flight amongst paulownia mon, the inside with scattered prunus blossoms; all rendered in polychrome enamels on the white nigoshide ground, the rim with a brown edge and with a single spur mark underneath, 20.2cm.