M5516
£4,250
Description
A Chinese porcelain blue and white kosometsuke plate, painted in the centre with a rabbit with his head turned upwards in white on an underglaze blue roundel, encircled by four different geometric grounds including key-fret, cash, chainmail and scales, divided by a cross, each terminating with a pair of cions, all beneath a blue ground boarder, on a scrolling ground, the underside with flower heads and scrolls.
8 ¼ inches, 21 cm diameter
Tianqi, 1620-1627.
Provenance & Additional Information
- A similar dish is illustrated by Sir Michael Butler in Chinese Porcelain: The Transitional Period, 1620-1683, no. 17, p. 29; two others are illustrated by Masahiko Kawahara in Ko-Sometsuke Monochrome Section, nos. 632 and 633, p. 160.
Condition
Tiny rim frit.
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