AN ARITA KORO EDO PERIOD, LATE 17TH CENTURY |

a deep bowl with everted rim on short foot and everted base, the sides with applied rectangular handles, the domed cover pierced with an uchiwa, a cherry blossom and a sacred pearl, surmounted by a karashishi finial, decorated in iron red, blue, green and black enamel and gilt with cherry blossoms and foliage

The collection of Augustus the Strong, Johanneum mark Z=ZO

Overall this Lot is in good condition.
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For a similar example in the Dresden Porcelain Collection (Dresdener Porzellansammlung), see Friedrich Reichel, Early Japanese Porcelain: Arita Porcelain in the Dresden Collection, (Leipzig 1980), pl.31