A JAPANESE BLUE AND WHITE DISH

A JAPANESE BLUE AND WHITE DISH

EDO PERIOD, 17TH CENTURY

The well decorated with a central panel enclosing two large ho-o, the long-tailed birds on a rocky outcrop framed by large flowers and leafy tendrils; all within a border of further blooms and auspicious symbols; the reverse with karakusa scrolls and a six-characters Chenghua mark; a paper label for Christie's 20 June 1998, lot 793, and another for Spink & Son, 18.7cm.

Provenance: from a British private collection, formed 1970-2003.

See the Gardiner Museum, Toronto, access. no.L09.13.17 for an ai Kakiemon dish in the Macdonald collection painted with the same scene in the centre.