Octagonal bowl with design of two birds resting on bamboo, enamelled ware

Octagonal bowl with design of two birds resting on bamboo, enamelled ware
Octagonal bowl with design of two birds resting on bamboo, enamelled ware
Octagonal bowl with design of two birds resting on bamboo, enamelled ware

Height 7.3 cm, mouth diameter 22.0 cm, bottom diameter 14.5 cm
 This is an octagonal bowl with a stalagmite-shaped mouth. The front is decorated with two small birds on bamboo, bamboo shoots, and azalea-like flowers on the right and left sides of the rocks. The inside of the eight-sided bowl has a long frame with alternating patterns of flowers and birds and a four-sided tsujidashi, and the outside has a hexagonal frame with a Shozuimaru design. Inside the stand is a Kakufuku inscription in underglaze blue, which is a unique and unusual form of inscription.

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