TWO JAPANESE ARITA BLUE AND WHITE PIECES

TWO JAPANESE ARITA BLUE AND WHITE PIECES
EDO OR MEIJI, 18TH/19TH CENTURY

One a shallow tray, the oval body decorated in the fuki-zumi or dami (blue wash) technique with a crane amongst flowers and rockwork, the rim with sayagata patterns; with a fitted wood stand and a tomobako (wood box) inscribed Sometsuke kofunmaru ban (blue and white tray with flowers); the other piece a flared cup painted with flowers, with a tomobako, 18.7cm and 6.2cm. (5)