M5632
£8,500
Description
Chinese porcelain wucai, ko akai deep dish, with fluted petal-shaped sides and foliate brown-dressed rim, painted with two pheasants, one standing on rockwork the other swooping down, between flowering peach and peony branches, encircled by an elaborate panelled border, of different geometric grounds including fans, flowerheads, hexagons, scales, lozenge and chain-mail, all heightened with bright green, yellow, turquoise and iron-red enamels; the border of the underside incised in anhua with butterflies and insects, dispersed between flowerheads above further anhua petals at the foot.
The base with a six-character mark of Chenghua within a double ring in underglaze blue, Tianqi, 1620-1627.
8 ¼ inches, 21 cm diameter.
Condition
Excellent condition; miniscule rim nicks and natural fire flaw in base.
Provenance & Additional Information
- From the Gesscian Collection, Yamagata Prefecture.
- Sold by Banri Ono, Tokyo, circa 1975.
- Sold by Yukichi Inouye.
- Sold by Tanisho, Tokyo, 7th April 2024.
- A similar dish from the same set is illustrated by Mainichi Shinbunsha in The Exhibition of Kosemetsuke and Shonzui, Yokohama, 1981, no. 131, p.84.
- Another from the same set was included by Jintsu Kunryudo in their October 2024 exhibition of Shonzui, catalogue no. 10.
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