Charcoal burner with flowering plants; birds and an inscription; Charcoal burner (hiire) of stoneware; painted in underglaze blue. The lower half of the bowl has a ribbed wall; divided into a band of elongated compartments with characters. Above that a band with three birds on a rock or a branch and medallions and cartouches with landscapes; people or napkins. The inner edge with a broad band with the 'three friends of winter' (bamboo; pine; prunus); with a bird on the prunus branch. The bottom is unglazed. Marked on the bottom with a six-character mark in a double circle and a depressed four-character mark. Kyoyaki.; anonymous; Japan; c. 1800 - c. 1849; Edo-period (1600-1868); stoneware; glaze; cobalt (mineral); vitrification; h 8.5 cm d 10.6 cm d 6.5