the deep bowl with domed cover surmounted by a karashishi finial decorated in underglaze blue in the Kakiemon style with a continuous mountainous landscape.

Note: A similar example in the Soame Jenyns collection is on view at the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge, collection no. J53.

For further examples see Kyushu Ceramic Museum, The Shibata Collection (Saga-prefecture, 1991) part 2, p.178, no.516 and The Toguri Museum of Art, Ko-Imari [Old Imari ware] (Tokyo, 1991), p.124, no.267.

Sotheby's. Fine Japanese Art. London, 06 Nov 2018, 10:30 AM