A Small Koransha Dish – Cherry Tree – Showa
April 2014 Auction by Far East Asian Art

A nice little Japanese Koransha dish with a design in dark blue of a cheery tree with red cherries. It measures 2 ½” long by 2” wide and is 1” deep. We date it to the late Showa period, 1940s-1960s. It is signed by the Koransha (Scented Orchid) workshop on the base. The piece is in excellent condition.

Over three hundred years ago, Eizaemon Fukagawa began hand crafting porcelain in feudal Japan...