Bidspirit auction | Japanese Lusterware Porcelain Landscape and

Japanese Lusterware Porcelain Landscape and Crane Coffee Pot - A Japanese hand-painted porcelain coffee pot of tall, tapered cylindrical form featuring an ornate gilded handle and a curved spout. The vessel is finished in a peach-toned iridescent lusterware glaze decorated with a traditional landscape scene. The foreground depicts a single crane (tsuru) standing among aquatic plants and water, while the background includes stylized pine trees, mountains, and a tiered building with an orange roof. The stepped lid and the upper rim of the body are finished in a contrasting blue luster glaze, and the lid is topped with a gilded finial. The handle and the tip of the spout also feature heavy gilding. The underside of the base features a printed black square mark containing four Japanese characters in an archaic script; below this mark is printed text reading HAND PAINTED, MEAD IN, JAPAN. The word made appears to be misspelled as MEAD in this backstamp.