A LARGE JAPANESE IMARI BOWL

A LARGE JAPANESE IMARI BOWL

EDO PERIOD, 17TH CENTURY

The deep body decorated in underglaze blue, gilt, yellow, red, orange, green and purple enamels, the well painted to the centre with a spray of peony and the cavetto with chrysanthemum tied up to bamboo canes, the rim with a band of clouds and fruiting branches in gilt on the dark blue ground; the reverse with a mountainous river landscape above two floral borders; an elderly man and two boy attendants crossing a bridge to one side, and a pavilion by a waterfall to the other, the base with a chrysanthemum mon, 37.7cm.