A Kakiemon style shallow dish | Edo period, late 17th century

Property from the Henry Lawrence Collection

A Kakiemon style shallow dish

Edo period, late 17^th century 

of square form with canted corners and four pierced roundels, decorated in underglaze blue finely shaded, with a scholar walking across a bridge before a fisherman on a pontoon, the reverse with scrolling, Chenghua six character mark to base

22 cm., 8¾ in. wide