40. M4416
£11,500
Description
Chinese porcelain blue and white large circular deep dish with flat everted rim, painted in the centre with a circular fruit within a six-pointed flower head, encircled by anhua flower heads on a scrolling branch with leaves, within a flower head band and a double ring, the rim with eight blue-ground Yamamoto family mon roundels, eight hexagonal flower head medallions and eight stylised flowers above a triangular diaper in the cavetto, all within a pale blue-washed rim, the exterior with nine flower heads, the flat base unglazed revealing the biscuit body.
9 1⁄4 inches, 23.5 cm diameter.
Tianqi/Chongzhen, circa 1625-1630.
Provenance & Additional Information
- Formerly in a Japanese private collection, Tokyo.
- Included by Marchant in their exhibition of Kosometsuke & Shonzui, 2024, no. 40, pp. 108/109.
- A similar dish of this unusual form, painted in the centre with a hare with pestle and mortar otherwise of similar design and size, is illustrated by Saito Kikutaro in Complete Collection of Ceramics, vol. 15, Kosometsuke, p. 48, and again by Watanabe Sanpodo in The Arts of Our Daily Lives, Kosometsuke and its Artistic Elegance, 2009.
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