A Japanese porcelain fluted oval dish decorated in Kakiemon palette circa 1700 Interior finely-decorated with prunus branches, flowers, and pomegranates to the side with a ho-o bird in the center; extrerior decorated with floral motifs. NOTE: this form was popular in Japan in the late 17th and early 18th century, for other examples, variously decorated, see Shibata Collection, part I, Kyushu, 1990, p.113, no. 287, p. 135, no.347; for one more broadly-decorated in Kakiemon palette, circa 1680-1710, see Shibata Collection, Part 5, Kyushu 1997, p.142, no. 196. Approx. L: 8 7/8 in., 22.4cm; W: 4 3/4 in., 12.1cm PROVENANCE: Estate of a Washington, D.C. collector