32. M3509
£11,500
Description
Chinese porcelain blue and white large deep dish, painted in the centre with a substantial hill-side rock and the roof of a house on the top amongst trees in a lake scene with a man seated on a rocky promontory all beneath the moon, the border with reserves with stylised branches on a keyfret and striped ground, the underside with four stylised pearls.
11 1/8 inches, 28.2 cm diameter.
Tianqi, 1621-1627.
Provenance & Additional Information
- From a Japanese private collection.
- Published by Masahiko Kawahara in Ko-sometsuke, Monochrome Section, no. 648, p. 164 (with incorrect measurement).
- Included by Marchant in their exhibition of Kosometsuke & Shonzui, 2024, no. 32, pp. 86/87.
- A dish of similar size with a closely related border painted with sanyou, the Three Friends of Winter, pine, prunus and bamboo, is illustrated by Kitaoji Rosan-jin in Kosometsuke Hyaku Hin-shu, Volume 1, no. 38.
Condition
- a few natural glaze gap, natural firing spots
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