36. M4408
£8,500
Description
Chinese porcelain blue and white food bowl with irregular foliate rim, painted on the well of the interior with a scholar and attendant standing on a rocky promontory in a river landscape scene, all within a double ring, the deep cavetto with three insects in flight between three prunus flower heads, all beneath a blue-washed rim, the exterior with a butterfly, two insects and two prunus flowers, all on three short bracket feet.
6 inches, 16.2 cm diameter.
Tianqi, 1621-1627.
Provenance & Additional Information
- Formerly in a Japanese private collection.
- Purchased at the Torikai auction, 2003.
- Included by Marchant in their exhibition of Kosometsuke & Shonzui, 2024, no. 36, pp. 94/95.
- A similar bowl probably from the same set, in the Tekisui Fine Arts Museum collection, Ashiya, Japan, is illustrated by Masahiko Kawahara in Ko-sometsuke, Monochrome Section, nos. 376 & 377, p. 99.
- A similar piece on a round foot rim was included by Marchant in their exhibition of Ming Porcelain for the Japanese Market, Ko-sometsuke and Ko-akai, 2008, no. 4, pp. 18/19; a set of five, in the Sekido Museum of Art, Adachi City, Tokyo, is illustrated in their catalogue of Kosometsuke, 2017, no. 77, p. 127.
Condition
- mushukui, natural firing spots
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