M5395
Description
Chinese porcelain blue and white and underglaze copper-red large ovoid jardinière with gently lipped rim, painted in a continuous mountain river landscape scene with a fisherman in his boat and another casting his net from a rocky promontory beside a willow and viewing pavilion, with large pine trees and underglaze copper-red wutong with two other standing scholars looking across the lake amongst rockwork, plants, pavilions all between underglaze blue lines, the base unglazed.
10 ½ inches, 26.7 cm high; 13 inches, 33 cm wide.
Kangxi, 1662-1722.
Provenance & Additional Information
• From an important private Japanese Lady, Tokyo.
Condition
Excellent condition, tiny star-crack on the interior, not through.
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