M5635
£4,250
Description
Chinese porcelain blue and white kosometsuke deep plate, painted with two ladies standing beneath a parasol beside a pine tree with roc kwork and pine, the irregular border with ten circular mons on two different diaper grounds and approximately a third on a white ground, the underside plain with underglaze blue lines encircling the foot and rim.
8 ¾ inches, 22.2 cm diameter.
Tianqi, 1620-1627.
Provenance & Additional Information
- From an old Japanese private collection.
- Sold by Shogado, Tokyo.
- Two related dishes, each with two figures holding an umbrella beside a palm tree are illustrated by Masahiko Kawahara in Ko-sometsuke, Monochrome Section, nos. 598/9, p. 152; a smaller related example was included by Marchant in their exhibition of Two Hundred Years of Chinese Porcelain, 1522-1722, 1998, no. 29, p. 46, where it notes “it is possible that this design, also known on baluster jars, inspired the prints of Cornelis Pronk in the 1730’s. These were commissioned at that time by the East India Company to be copied by Chinese potters on to porcelain”.
Condition
The rim with frits, mushikui.
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