41. M4406
£11,500
Description
Chinese porcelain blue and white hexagonal deep dish with upright sides painted with a rooster standing on a rocky promontory crowing at the rising sun, beside flower sprays and insects in flight, with cloud banks and mountain peaks in the distance, all within a single blue line and beneath a blue-washed band on the rim, the flat base unglazed.
8 inches, 20.3 cm diameter.
Tianqi/Chongzhen, circa 1625-1630.
Edo period wood box.
Provenance & Additional Information
- Formerly in a private Japanese collection.
- Sold by Harumi Shoten, Osaka, circa 2008.
- Purchased at the Shoseikai auction, Osaka Art Club.
- Included by Marchant in their exhibition of Kosometsuke & Shonzui, 2024, no. 41, pp. 110/111.
- No other identical dish appears recorded.
- A similar hexagonal dish painted with fish is illustrated by Senju Sato and Takeshi Mayuyama in Kosometsuke, no. 48, p. 79.
- A similarly painted round deep dish with a blue-washed rim is illustrated by the Iida City Art Museum, Nagano, Japan, in their catalogue of The Watahan Nohara Collection, 2000, no. 20, p. 137.
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