Description

Chinese porcelain blue and white drum-shaped shallow circular bowl with concave ogee rim painted in the centre with three wild horses amongst foliage, beneath cloud scrolls and the moon within a double ring in underglaze blue, the inner rim, outer rim and lobed edges with blue lines, the base unglazed on a shallow foot rim.

Exterior diameter 8 3⁄4 inches, 21.9 cm; inner rim diameter 6 5/8 inches, 16.8 cm.

Tianqi, 1621-1627.

Provenance & Additional Information

  • Formerly in the Ohno family private collection for over 40 years, Tokyo, Japan.
  • Sold by T. Edo Inouye & Son, Tokyo, Japan.
  • Included by Marchant in their exhibition of Kosometsuke & Shonzui, 2024, no. 19, pp. 58/59.
  • A similar piece also painted with three wild horses, heightened in copper-red, is illustrated by Masahiko Kawahara in Ko-sometsuke, Colour Section, no. 88, pp. 112/3, where the author also illustrates another with a single horse and another with a figure in a landscape, nos. 86 & 89, pp. 110-113; the example with a single horse is also illustrated by Senju Sato and Takeshi Mayuyama in Kosometsuke, no. 16, pp. 34/35, and also illustrated by the Sekido Museum of Art, Adachi City, Tokyo, in their catalogue of Kosometsuke, 2017, no. 45, p. 101, where they also illustrate two others of this unusual form with landscape and figures decoration respectively, nos. 46 & 47, pp. 102/3.

Condition

  • natural firing glaze crackles, two rim chips with old lacquered restored.
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