Four blue and white porcelain dishes


Hizen ware,Kakiemon typeEdo period (1615-1868), 17th/18th centuryEach molded with a lobed, barbed rim painted in brown iron oxide, and decorated in underglaze cobalt blue with long-tailed birds, cranes, or scholars in pavilions in a mountainous landscape, the undersides painted with scrolling vines and double rings surrounding the foot and a stylized Fuku (Happiness) mark and four spur marks, one dish with an inventory mark from the collection of Augustus the Strong (1694-1733) 9 1/2in (24.1cm) diameter, the largest