AN ARITA MODEL OF A COCKEREL EDO PERIOD, LATE 17TH - EARLY 18TH CENTURY |

the bird with its head turned backwards, seated on the remains of a tree stump decorated in green, black and iron red enamels with its finely detailed tail feathers

Robert Moore collection

Restoration to the tip of the cockscomb and to the tips of a number of the fungi decorating the base.
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For a similar example see Christiaan J. A. Jörg, Fine and Curious: Japanese Export Porcelain in Dutch Collections (Amsterdam, 2003), no. 360 Another example in the Soame Jenyns Collection is on view in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, collection no. J117