The five-petalled brown edged porcelain bowl with deep curving sides standing on a straight circular foot and decorated in the Kakiemon palette with a flowering prunus with a perched bird, a small flying bird and flowering bamboo on rockwork. The inside decorated twice with two large and a small flowering plants and two flying insects. On the bottom a Dresden carved inventory Johanneums number N : 19 , from the inventory of August II, King of Polen and Kurfürst of Sachsen , from the porcelain collection in the “Japanischen Palast zu Dresden.”
Literature :
Japanese Export Porcelain, Cataloque of the collection of the Ashmolean Museum Oxford by Oliver Impey Blz. 146 Nm 203.
Japanese Porcelain by P.L.W. Arts – Page 63 Nm. 36.
Condition : Crack restored
Japan - Arita
Circa 1700.
Height: 9,5 cm. (3,7 inches.)
Diam.: 18,5 cm. (7,3 inches.)
Weight: 511 grams.