M5397
£9,800
Description
A Chinese porcelain wucai cylindrical charcoal burner, hire, painted in a continuous scene, with a seated scholar holding a wine cup in his left hand, whilst resting his right hand on a book, beside wine jars and kang table with a ewer, the reverse with his attendant bringing him a goose, amongst bamboo, plantain, rockwork, fencing and foliage, the enamels painted in bright tones of turquoise, yellow, green and aubergine, heightened in iron-red, all beneath a band of double keyfrets in underglaze blue dispersed between flowering branches and precious objects, and beneath a brown-dressed rim, most of the interior unglaze, all on a short foot rim, the underside with a four character mark, tian xia tai ping, “peace and prosperity under heaven”, within a double square.
10.8 cmx 8.3cm
Tianqi/Chongzhen, circa 1630.
Provenance & Additional Information
- From a private Japanese collection.
- Sold by Zenta-Shoundo, Kyoto, Japan.
- A similar example with three boys at play, also with a brown dressed rim and related four character mark within a double sqaure, is illustrated by Zenta Nobuyo in Kosometsuke & Shonzui, 2023, no. 66, p. 96.
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