M5779
£23,500
Description
Large Chinese porcelain blue and white serving dish with needle point foliate rim, hariki, brightly painted with large magpies and squirrels amongst the ‘three friends of winter’, sanyou, pine prunus and bamboo, the squirrels clambering amongst fruiting vine branches beneath a scrolling branch of flowers and a brown dressed foliate rim, the underside with birds perched on a continuous branch of flowering prunus.
The base with a six-character mark of Jiajing and a square fu mark, happiness, in underglaze blue within a double ring.
Late Ming, Tianqi/Chongzhen circa 1630.
Together with original Edo period Japanese wood box.
27.2 cm. diameter.
Condition
Excellent condition.
Provenance & Additional Information
- Sold by Hirano Kotoken, Osaka, Japan circa 1970 (the ribbon from the box is the Hirano Kotoken ribbon).
- Sold by Yasuo Jintsu, Kunryudo, Tokyo, Japan.
- Included by the above in his October 2024 exhibition of Important Shonzui Wares From a Private Collection, no. 4
- No other dish of this remarkable size and design appears recorded.
- A related dish of this unusual size with a related design in coloured enamels is in the Stanford University Museum of Art Collection, gift from the Ikeda family is illustrated by Stephen Little Chinese Ceramics of the Transitional Period: 1620-1683, no.35.
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