Caption:
Saucer-dish with two pheasants on a prunus tree on a ground of flowers and swastikas, Porcelain dish with lobed edge, painted in underglaze blue. On the flat a pheasant on a prunus tree near a rock, a second pheasant is flying above the tree. The background with a grid pattern alternately filled with swastikas and stylized flowers. An inscription of four characters next to the tree. The inner wall with a band of ruyi motifs. The outer wall with a continuous border with birds. Marked on the bottom with 'fuku' in a square within a double circle. Baking sand on the foot ring. Arita, blue and white., anonymous, Japan, c. 1700 - c. 1799, Edo-period (1600-1868), porcelain (material), glaze, cobalt (mineral), vitrification, h 3.1 cm d 19.7 cm d 14.2 cm