A Kakiemon five-sided deep bowl
Edo period (1615-1868), late 17th/early 18th century Finely painted on the interior beneath a brown-edged rim with clumps of wild flowers in coloured enamels, the exterior with the shochikubai (the 'Three Friends of Winter': pine, bamboo, and prunus, that flourish at the same time) growing from behind rocks in coloured enamels and underglaze blue. 18cm (7in) diameter.
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Provenance:Purchased in these rooms, 16 May 2013, lot 523.A bowl of the same type in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford is illustrated in Eastern Ceramics and Other Works of Art from the Collection of Gerald Reitlinger, Memorial Exhibition Catalogue, Ashmolean Museum, 18 July-13 September 1981, p.74, no.183.