The deep bowl on ring foot and with slightly everted rim, decorated overall in vibrant enamels and gilt with courtesans and maiko beside pine trees and hanging wisteria, the interior rim with a broad band containing stylised brocade patterns and mythical dragons and ho-o birds in foliate roundels, four character mark surrounded by flowering plum branches to the base

6⁷⁄₈ in. (17.5 cm.) high; 15 in. (38.2 cm.) diameter

Anonymous sale; Christie's, South Kensington, 25 January 2011, lot 208.

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