M5631
£7,850
Description
Chinese porcelain blue and white kosometsuke trefoil stem bowl, painted on the bowl with four large leaf sprays above a flange and stylised grass, the lobed overturned rim with a geometric ground and six circular mons with flower heads, cash, three commas, lozenge and three stripes.
5 11/16 inches, 14.5 cm across; 3 3/8 inches, 8.6 cm high.
Tianqi, 1620-1627.
Provenance & Additional Information
- From an old private Japanese tea-ceremony family collection.
- Sold by Tanisho, Tokyo.
- A similar example, probably from the same set in the Itsu-o Fine Arts Museum is illustrated by Masahiko Kawahara in Ko-sometsuke, Monochrome Section, no. 389, p. 102.
Condition
Small rim and edge frits, mushikui.
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