35. M4292
£11,500
Description
Chinese porcelain blue and white saucer dish painted with two large shrimp beside an eight-character poem, ‘qian yu Cangming, fu ruo long xing’, ‘hides in the Cangming river, with a form like the shape of a dragon,’ the cavetto moulded with anhua waves, flowers and ruyi-heads, the underside painted with underglaze blue waves, the base with a six-character mark of Xuande within a double ring.
8 inches, 20.2 cm diameter.
Tianqi 1621-1628.
Edo/Meiji period wood box.
Provenance & Additional Information
- From the private collection of the late Mr. Noriyuki Maesaka (1936-2015), by repute in his personal collection since the 1960’s.
- Sold by Maesaka Saitendo, Tokyo.
- Included and illustrated by T. Edo Inouye & Son, Oriental Art, Tokyo, in their exhibition of Ko-sometsuke, Collected and Selected Seventy-Seven Dishes, 2017, no. 47, with additional complete image on the inside end page.
- Sold by T. Edo Inouye & Son, Tokyo, 28th February 2017.
- Included by Marchant in their exhibition of Kosometsuke & Shonzui, 2024, no. 35, pp. 92/93.
- A similar dish was included by Marchant in their exhibition of Transitional Wares for the Japanese and Domestic Markets, 1989, no. 4, p. 14, and again by Marchant in Ming Blue and White Porcelain, The Drs. A. M. Sengers Collection, 2001, no. 59, pp. 82/3; another is illustrated by Masahiko Kawahara in Ko-sometsuke, Monochrome Section, no. 666, p. 169; another, in the Sekido Museum of Art, Adachi City, Tokyo, is illustrated in their catalogue of Kosometsuke, 2017, no. 162, p. 204; and another from the collection of Gerald Reitlinger is in the Ashmolean Museum, collection no. EA1978.2022.
Condition
- mushukui, natural firing spots
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