Arita blue and white plate with a Chinese garden with scholars
An Arita-ware plate decorated in underglaze blue with a scholar and attendant crossing a bridge toward a small pavilion.
Provenance: Augustus II ‘The Strong’, Elector of Saxony (1670–1733).
Signed with an underglaze-blue mark Fuku within a single concentric ring, with an inventory mark of the Johanneum N:469 over a wavy line
Edo period, Circa 1680
Diameter 22.2 cm