A JAPANESE KAKIEMON DISH

A JAPANESE KAKIEMON DISH

EDO PERIOD, C.1700

The body with a typical brown rim and painted in iron red, green, yellow, cyan, dark blue and black enamels, decorated with a bird perched on a branch and another one in flight, the Shochikubai, the Three Friends of Winter (bamboo, prunus, pine)surrounding them , the branches issuing from banded hedges painted in black enamels, 21.4cm.

Cf. Asahi Shinbunsha Seibu Honsha Kikakobu, Kakiemon no sekai, Genryu kara gendai made (The World of Kakiemon from its Origins to the Present), p.83, no.99, and O Impey, Japanese Export Porcelain: Catalogue of the Collection of the Ashmolean Museum,p.160, no.235, for other pieces with related decoration.