A Kakiemon shallow dishEdo period (1615-1868), circa 1680-1700
Painted in blue, turquoise, and red enamels and gilt, and partly drawn in black, depicting two birds, one flying by tall flowering pine, plum and bamboo ('Three Friends' of winter that flourish at the same time), growing by a triple-banded hedge, the second bird perched on the bamboo stem, all within a brown-glazed rim. 21.5cm (8½in).注脚Variations of this popular design are illustrated in Asahi Shinbunsha Seibu Honsha Kikakubu, Kakiemon no sekai: Genryu kara gendai made (The World of Kakiemon from Its Origins to the Present), Fukuoka, Asahi Shinbunsha Seibu Honsha Kikakubu, 1983, p.83, no.99; Oliver Impey, Japanese Export Porcelain, Catalogue of the Collection of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Amsterdam, Hotei Publishing, 2002, p.160, no.235.