M4598
£9,500
Description
A pair of Chinese porcelain blue and white and underglaze copper-red small plates each painted with the three friends of winter, sanyou, with two birds in flight between a large prunus tree with small sprays of bamboo and pine needles, heightened in copper-red, encircled by a ‘cracked ice’ blue ground prunus flower head border, the underside with three branches of flowering chamellia, the base with a six-character mark of Chenghua within a double ring in underglaze blue.
6 ¼ inches, 15.8 cm.
Kangxi, 1662-1722.
Condition
Excellent.
Provenance & Additional Information
- From a Japanese private collection.
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