A JAPANESE BLUE AND WHITE KAKIEMON-STYLE DISH

A JAPANESE BLUE AND WHITE KAKIEMON-STYLE DISH

EDO PERIOD, 1670-90

The scalloped body decorated with two Chinese figures on a wood jetty gazing at a waterfall, with branches of flowering prunus behind them, the water falling from a rocky outcrop and crashing into a stream below, the underside with karakusa scrolls and a fuku mark to the base, 18.3cm.

Provenance: from the collection of Henry Mark Darlow (d.2018).