M5778
£26,500
Description
Chinese porcelain blue and white kosometsuke serving dish with incurved rim painted in the centre with a boy seated astride a recumbent elephant whose head is raised while his trunk holds up a flowering lotus branch, the incurved rim with keyfret design.
Ming dynasty, Tianqi 1620-1627.
Together with original Edo period Japanese wood box.
22.3 cm diameter.
Condition
Excellent condition, the rim fritted with mushikui, natural sand spots and bubble bursts.
Provenance & Additional Information
- Sold by Keigo Nakamura, Lyan Arts, Tokyo.
- Three similar dishes, probably from the same original set are published in three publications, by Masahiko Kawahara in Kosometsuke Colour Volume I, no. 90, pp. 114/5; in the Sekido Museum of Art collection, no. 50 and in the Ida Art Museum collection, Nagano, Japan from the Watahan Nohara collection, no.4.
- Another is illustrated on the front cover of Chi-I-Sana-Tsubomi (Small and Charming pieces), volume 8, p. 34; two others are published by Mainichi Shinbunsha in The Exhibition of Ko-sometsuke and Shonzui, Yokohama, 1981, nos. 83 & 84, pp. 53/54.
- This is only the second example that Marchant has ever handled of this type.
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