A GOOD JAPANESE KAKIEMON VASE C.1680 The ovoid body decorated in iron-red, yellow, green, blue and black enamels with a continuous mountainous river landscape, with thatched buildings to the water's edge, fishing boats and a large weeping willow, the neck with a tooth pattern band, the shoulder with stylised clouds and with two concentric red lines above the foot, 21cm. Provenance: Christie's London, 11th May 2011, lot 109. Cf. E Strober, La maladie de porcelaine: East Asian Porcelain from the Collection of Augustus the Strong, p.166, where this style of Kakiemon decoration is discussed, and Old Imari Ware, the Toguri Museum of Art, p.81, pl.73, where a comparable example is illustrated.