M5806

青花五彩人物故事纹梅瓶 （带盖）

高：29.3厘米

崇祯年间，约 1640 年

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.

青花五彩双凤纹方形盘

天启，1625

直径：19.7厘米