A JAPANESE ARITA BLUE AND WHITE SALT

A JAPANESE ARITA BLUE AND WHITE SALT
EDO PERIOD (1615-1868), 17TH CENTURY

9cm.

From an English private collection, Hampshire.

Painted with a ho-o bird perched amongst flowers, the interior left unglazed.

Cf. C J A Jörg, Fine & Curious, Japanese Export Porcelain in Dutch Collections, p.163, no.186 for another blue and white salt of similar shape at the Groninger Museum, Groningen.