A RARE JAPANESE KAKIEMON FIGURE OF A BOY

A RARE JAPANESE KAKIEMON FIGURE OF A BOY, KARAKO

C.1690

The youth depicted hugging a giant gourd-shaped sake bottle, decorated in iron-red, blue, green, yellow and black, his robes painted with a pattern of stylised cash, leaves, long feathers and dots, the bottle with an undulating design and with a rope tied around the narrow part of the body, 13.5cm.