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.
13. M4290
£6,500
青花“岁寒三友”纹菊瓣盘
直径:20.6厘米
天启 1621-1627年
M5564
£9,500
清十九世纪 白玉“卷轴”纹鼻烟壶
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With 1000 illustrations
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Edited by Rose Kerr
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The centenary exhibition catalogue
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