13. M4290
£6,500
Description
Chinese porcelain blue and white moulded saucer dish in the form of a chrysanthemum flower with two registers of individually outlined petals and petal-shape rim painted in the centre with sanyou, the Three Friends of Winter, pine, prunus and bamboo, beneath stylised clouds, the underside with three registers of outlined petals, the base with a ‘fu’ mark within a double square, within a double ring.
8 1/8 inches, 20.6 cm diameter.
Tianqi, 1621-1627.
Provenance & Additional Information
- Purchased at the Seizankai auction at the Tokyo Art Club House Gallery, August 2016.
- Included and illustrated by T. Edo Inouye & Son, Oriental Art, in their exhibition of Ko-sometsuke, Collected and Selected Seventy-Seven Dishes, 2017, no. 20.
- Sold by T. Edo Inouye & Son, Tokyo, 28th February 2017.
- Included by Marchant in their exhibition of Kosometsuke & Shonzui, 2024, no. 13, pp. 46/47.
- No other dish of this design appears recorded.
- A chrysanthemum dish with two registers of petals painted with deer and another painted with a bird are illustrated by Eva Ströber in Ming Porcelain for a Globalised Trade, nos. 81 & 82, pp. 200/1; two others with birds are illustrated by Maura Rinaldi in Kraak Porcelain, A Moment in the History of the Trade, pls. 120 & 121, p. 117; four related dishes with birds are illustrated by Regina Krahl and John Ayers in Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum, A Complete Catalogue II, Yuan and Ming Dynasty Porcelains, nos. 1229,1230,1765 & 1766, pp. 711, 712 & 848.
Condition
- good condition
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