A GROUP OF SIX JAPANESE BLUE AND WHITE PORCELAIN PIECES

Edo and Meiji period

Including a faceted dish decorated with cranes encircling a dragon, a dish with a landscape and panels of boys to the lobed rim, a dish with a crane among stylised clouds, two flared cups with figures of foreigners and a cylindrical cup painted to the interior and exterior with a bird in the trees and inscribed to the base and side,

5.5cm – 18cm diameter (8)

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PROVENANCE:

Private London collection

A similar cup by Kato Gosuke is in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum accession no 185&A-1877.