a figurative scene depicting the Chinese tale of the Tang poet Li Bo, who made the eunuch Gao Lischi remove his boot in the Imperial presence 42cm high
PROVENANCE: Private London collection Sotheby?s Fine Japanese Art, 6 November 1918 Guest & Gray, London NOTE: A similar example is illustrated in Soame Jenyns, Japanese Porcelain (London 1958) Pl. 117a, formerly in the collection of Richard de la Mare.