M5832
£8,500
Description
Chinese porcelain blue and white Shonzui deep fluted dish with foliate rim, painted with two pheasants, one perched on rockwork, the other on a flowering camellia branch beneath clouds and the moon, within two underglaze blue double lines, beneath a border of daisy, prunus, peony, rose and lotus flower heads, on a dense geometric ground with keyfrets and beneath the hariki, needle-point rim dressed in a brown slip, the underside painted with elaborate flowers on a continuous scrolling leafy branch, the base with a six-character mark of Chenghua within a double ring in underglaze blue.
Tianqi/Chongzheng, circa 1630.
9 ¼ inches, 23.6 cm diameter.
Japanese wood box.
Condition
Excellent condition, some natural sand spots on the front, the underside with some scratches and minute glaze shrinkage to the base.
Provenance & Additional Information
- From a private collection, Nagoya, Japan.
- A similar dish with two cranes is illustrated by Zenta, Tokyo, in their 10thanniversary catalogue, p. 23; another was sold by Christie’s London in their auction of The Peony Pavilion Collection: Chinese Tea Ceramics for Japan 1580-1650, 12th June 1989, lot 221.
- A related Shonzui, harikidish of this size and shape with a similar border and underside was included by Marchant in their exhibition of Kosometsuke and Shonzui, 2023, no. 48, pp. 124/5.
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