A JAPANESE ARITA BLUE AND WHITE DISH

A JAPANESE ARITA BLUE AND WHITE DISH
EDO PERIOD, 17TH CENTURY

Decorated with a Chinese scholar under a rocky outcrop looking pensively at a lone mandarin duck on a pond, painted in underglaze blue; the scalloped rim with a brown edge; the reverse painted with leafy sprays and a fuku mark; together with a tomobako (wood box), 20.4cm. (2)