34. M4595
£8,500
Description
Chinese porcelain blue and white ‘snowflake’ form deep bowl, with wide flat everted octagonal foliate rim with horseshoe indentations, painted in the centre with a flower head on a leafy branch encircled by a ribbon-tied lozenge, ribbon-tied music stones and two pairs of crossed hu tablets amongst leaves, all within a double ring, the flat wide everted rim painted with two swallows in flight between long branches with flower and leaves, all within a blue-washed border, the underside with two pairs of lozenges and pearls.
8 1⁄4 inches, 21 cm diameter.
Tianqi, 1621-1627.
Edo period box, with paper label describing the dish as ‘snow wheel’.
Provenance & Additional Information
- Sold by Satoshi Tsutsumi, Tokyo, 24th November 2017.
- Included by Marchant in their exhibition of Kosometsuke & Shonzui, 2024, no. 34, pp. 90/91.
- No other dish of this design appears recorded.
- A dish of identical form from a Japanese private collection, painted in the centre with a dragon amongst clouds and flames with a stylised crested-wave border, the reverse inscribed with a Tianqi mark and dated to the first year of Tianqi corresponding to 1621, is illustrated and discussed by Mr. Soame Jenyns in his paper given on 20th March 1963, The Chinese Ko-sometsuke and Shonsui Wares, in Transactions of the Oriental Ceramic Society, 1962-63, vol. 34, pl. 2a, and is again illustrated by Saito Kikutaro in Complete Collection of Ceramics, vol. 15, Kosometsuke, no. 43, along with another dish of this shape and size, no. 40b, painted in the centre with two turtles, minogame, within a stylised flame border, which is again illustrated by Masahiko Kawahara in Ko-sometsuke, Monochrome Section, no. 271, p. 71.
Condition
- mushukui, a few firing spots
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