Covered bowl or butter tub with a figure in a landscape, lotus scrolls and flower sprays, Lid bowl or butter dish of porcelain with two ears and on three legs in the form of a monster head, painted in underglaze blue. The outside of the bowl is divided into wide and narrow compartments, alternately in the wide compartments a stylized person in a landscape and lotus vines, the narrow boxes with a flower branch. A peony branch on the bottom. The lobed border with flower vines. The lid does not belong to the bowl and is saved with a wool motif in a blue background, the lid knob in the shape of a
Covered bowl or butter tub with a figure in a landscape, lotus scrolls and flower sprays, Lid bowl or butter dish of porcelain with two ears and on three legs in the form of a monster head, painted in underglaze blue. The outside of the bowl is divided into wide and narrow compartments, alternately in the wide compartments a stylized person in a landscape and lotus vines, the narrow boxes with a flower branch. A peony branch on the bottom. The lobed border with flower vines. The lid does not belong to the bowl and is saved with a wool motif in a blue background, the lid knob in the shape of a shishi (lion dog). The decoration of the bowl is based on the Chinese kraak porcelain. Two legs have been broken off. Blue White., anonymous, Japan, c. 1650 - c. 1699, Edo-period (1600-1868), porcelain (material), glaze, cobalt (mineral), vitrification, h cm d cm d 9 cm h cm × d cm
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