1989 Transitional Wares for the Japanese and Domestic Markets

The catalogue of Transitional Wares for the Japanese and Domestic Markets comprises of 129 pieces of Chinese porcelain and accompanied our exhibition in June 1989. Notable pieces include a kosometsuke saucer dish with figures in boats beneath poem, seven groups of mukozuke, two transitional sleeve vases with figures and poems, a large transitional brushpot with figures and buffaloes, a transitional “washing the elephant” brushpot, a large transitional proto yanyan with kingfishers and lotus, two early Kangxi imperial saucer dishes with immortals, 31 ko-akai dishes, a wucai five-tier picnic box with crane medallions, a wucai dragon sleeve vase and a Kangxi famille verte biscuit ink stone. Hard back. Introduction by John Ayers.