Asian Art - 15th November 2017
Lot 756
A JAPANESE KO-KUTANI SAUCER LATE 17TH CENTURY Painted in coloured enamels with a bird perched on...
Estimate £400 - £600 | Hammer £1200
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Description
A JAPANESE KO-KUTANI SAUCER
LATE 17TH CENTURY
Painted in coloured enamels with a bird perched on a flowering prunus branch, the reverse with two further prunus sprays, the base with a fuku mark, 14.6cm.
Provenance: a Dutch private collection, sold at Sotheby's Amsterdam, 27th October 1993, lot 499.
For another Ko-Kutani dish with similar decoration, see the Mary Griggs Burke Bequest at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, accession no.2015.79.291.