Awesome RARE Japanese Meiji-era KUTANI Dove - Marked

I found this a few months ago at an antique mall, and I posted it on a FB page for identifying Japanese ceramics. There was a lot of debate, and eventually one of the members, a Japanese-American professor emeritus at the University of California in Chico, found a similar piece with the same mark on a Japanese website. He identified it as "Touka-Saku" and that was what I wrote down, but I couldn't find any similar pieces.

But nonetheless, I've never seen a piece of Kutani like this before. The beak is gold-gilt and the feathers have a tri-colored raised enamel of blue, pink, and white. Its really a great piece, and I got it for very, very cheap. The owner of the booth it was found it had labeled it "Porcelain duck, signed." I'm guessing she thought it was European (and obviously it not a duck.)

That's why antique malls are a good place to find Asian antiques. A lot of people are 100% unfamiliar with them because you can't look at the mark and Google it, or at least most people don't know *how* to, but it is possible if you are familiar with kanji.

I go to antique malls *specifically* looking for Asian antiques only, because I figure that everything else there that has marks in English has been Googled and priced at retail, so I can find rare Asian stuff for a bargain that dealers aren't able to Google, like yixing teapots. for example. Those things can go into the thousands and I occasionally find them for low double-digit prices with a tag that reads "Asian Teapot."