Description

Chinese porcelain blue and white shonzui-type faceted decagonal bottle vase of double-gourd form, tokuri, with each facet fluted and ribbed and painted with geometric designs including interlocking keyfret, scrolls, wan-characters, interlaced cash, plum blossom flowers on hexagonal blue ground, weave-pattern, ‘chess-board’, diamonds and flowerhead diaper, between a keyfret band at a narrow waist, the flat unglazed base with short foot rim revealing the fine white biscuit body, the rim slightly reduced with old metalwork fitting.

6 1⁄2 inches, 16.5 cm high.

Chongzhen, circa 1630.

Lacquered Japanese wood box.

Provenance & Additional Information

  • From a private Japanese collection, Osaka.
  • Sold by Wada, Osaka, 17th April 2019.
  • Included by Marchant in their exhibition of Kosometsuke & Shonzui, 2024, no. 49, pp. 126/127.
  • No others of this type appear to be published.
  • A pair of tokuri of this design and form with blue glazed ribs and blue washed ground from the Nezu Museum, Tokyo, are illustrated by Saito Kikutaro in Complete Collection of Ceramics, vol. 44, Kosometsuke and Shonzui, no. 118, p. 80.
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