M4472
£3,850
Description
Chinese porcelain blue and white kosometsuke deep plate with everted rim, painted in the centre in vivid blue tones with a fisherman standing at the stern with the rectangular sail open, with rock work in the foreground and a two-tiered pagoda in the distance beneath the moon, with an unusual lappet border in the form of a flower, the underside with sprays of branches.
8 3/16 inches, 20.8 cm diameter.
Tianqi, 1620-27.
Provenance & Additional Information
- Kochukyo, Tokyo.
- A dish of this form with the same border, painted in the centre with fish, was included by T.Edo Inouye & Son, in their exhibition of Collected and Selected Seventy-Seven Dishes from the Late Ming, Seventeenth-Century, Kosometsuke, no. 45.
Condition
Rim frits, mushikui, the glazed base with classic chatter marks beneath the biscuit footrim with some grit attached.
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