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Japanese 'barbers' bowl


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Dates Circa 1690 - 1710
Origin Japan
Description A rare Japanese porcelain 'Imari' barber's bowl, gilt and painted in iron-red, black and underglaze blue with a jardinière of chrysanthemums on a fenced terrace, the sloping everted rim with retreats nestling on rocky riverbanks, separated at three regular intervals with a panel containing a strutting cockerel, and on the reverse with a band of meandering peonies below three detached branches of prunus.

Late 17th/early 18th century.

12 1/4"" diam.