25. M4424
£6,500
Description
Chinese porcelain blue and white sweetmeat dish, mukozuke, in the form of a reclining Buddhist lion on four feet, with detailed hairwork to the tail, eyebrows and beard, painted in lines and wash, the underside moulded to reveal the features of the lion.
6 3⁄4 inches, 17.2 cm long.
Tianqi, 1621-1627.
Provenance & Additional Information
- Included by Usui Ichigendo in their exhibition catalogue, Born to Play, 2016, no. 25.
- Sold by Usui Ichigendo, Tokyo, 6th June 2017.
- Included by Marchant in their exhibition of Kosometsuke & Shonzui, 2024, no. 25, pp. 70/71.
- Another was included by Marchant in their exhibition of Ming Blue and White: Jiajing-Chongzhen, including Dated Examples, 2004, no. 60, p. 82; another in a mixed set of six, from the Sato collection, Kanagawa Prefecture, was included in the Kyoto National Museum special exhibition of Chinese Ceramics, the Most Popular Works amongst Japanese, 1991, no. 174; another also from a mixed set of six, in the Sekido Museum of Art, Adachi City, Tokyo, is illustrated in their catalogue of Kosometsuke, 2017, no. 94, p. 144.
- A shard discovered at Jingdezhen No. 5 Elementary School kiln site from the Tianqi/Chongzhen strata of the head of related Buddhist lion mukozuke sweetmeat dish is illustrated by Huang Qing Hua in Colorful Japan – the Special Exhibition of the Ordered Porcelains at the End of Ming Dynasty from Japan, which relates to discoveries from this period at Jingdezhen, p. 124.
Condition
- mushukui, firing spots
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