M4496

Chinese porcelain blue and white kosometsuke large plate painted with Shoulao seated between seven immortals, all identifiable by their attributes, beside a bridge and between overhanging rocks with pine branches, encircled by a border with 39 mons, the underside with two pairs of lozenge and pearls.

10 5/8 inches, 27 cm diameter.

Tianqi, 1621-1627.

Chinese Longquan monochrome celadon glazed deep dish with flat everted rim and tapered foot rim, applied in the centre with a relief moulded open-mouth writhing dragon with detailed scales on his body in a slightly recessed well, encircled by carved stylised flowers and scrolls with comb technique, the exterior moulded with thirty-five radiating relief lotus petals, the base covered overall in an even pale celadon sea-green glaze, the knife-cut biscuit foot burnt orange at the edges revealing the high-fired biscuit body.

13 7/8 inches, 35.3 cm diameter.

Early Yuan Dynasty, Longquan kilns, Zhejiang Province, late 13th to early 14th century.

龍泉窑青釉龍紋盤，元初，十三世紀末至十四世紀初，Taliani de Marchio 侯爵伉儷舊藏

Chinese porcelain blue and white Kraak deep saucer with foliate rim, painted with a pair of birds perched on rockwork above a stream beneath a large butterfly in flight, all in a shaped octagonal panel encircled by panels of fruits and flowers, the underside with some sand adhered from firing.

5 5/8 inches, 14.2 cm diameter.

Wanli, 1573-1619.