Circular Bowl with Lightly Flaring Lip and Decoration of Blossoming Plum Branches and Birds

Japanese

Porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue, with relief plub blossoms touched on in white slip and embellished with pale celadon glaze, the background with overglaze yellow enamel; with spurious mark underglaze cobalt blue mark reading "Da Ming Xuande nian zhi" within a double circle on the base

Meiji era, 1868-1912