A RARE JAPANESE SET OF FIVE KAKIEMON MUKOZUKE

A RARE JAPANESE SET OF FIVE KAKIEMON MUKOZUKE

EDO PERIOD, 1670-1770

The small food dishes modelled as colourful butterflies, their open wings with details highlighted in yellow, green, blue and red enamels, their spiraling antennae painted in iron-red, all five raised on a short foot, all 12.7cm approx. (5)

Provenance: formerly a Japanese private collection.

Cf. The Kyushu Ceramic Museum, Complete Catalogue of Shibata Collection, p.238 no.1844 and p.247 no.1914 for two early blue and white butterfly-shaped dishes. See also p.293 no.2286 for a blank dish also shaped as a butterfly with a similar foot.