" Pair Of Blue And White Bowls Arita Japan 1700-30"
A pair of well decorated Arita blue and white octagonal bowls with a scholar looking at a distant waterfall, his assistant holding a parasol while looking back at two seated figures watching them. Within a continuous mountainous landscape. Arita kilns circa C1700-30.
Maximum diameter; 3 5/8" (9.4 cm).
Condition; excellent, one bowl has a small underglaze firing fault on the rim.
See 'Ko-Imari from the collection of Oliver Impey, Barry Davies Oriental Art, London, 1997, no. 77, for a similar bowl