M5826
£7,850
Description
Chinese porcelain ko-akai, wucai, dish of flower form, with foliate rim, painted with a scholar and his attendant crossing a bridge in a river landscape scene, the scholar carrying a staff while the attendant carries a wrapped qin, all beneath iron-red clouds and the sun with an overhanging flowering tree, heightened in green, yellow, aubergine and iron-red enamels with underglaze blue, all beneath a brown-dressed rim.
The base with a four-character mark fu tian xia taiping, ‘happiness and universal peace’, within a double square and a single ring in underglaze blue, the base also with chatter marks within the unglazed foot.
Late Tianqi to early Chongzhen, circa 1630.
21cm diameter
Provenance & Additional Information
- From a Japanese private collection, Tokyo.
- Sold by Kusaka, Shogado, Tokyo.
- An identical dish with the same mark and chatter marks in the Kyoto National Museum is illustrated in their catalogue of The Exhibition of Late Ming and Early Qing Wucai Porcelain, 1973, colour page no. 23, p. 29; another, originally in the Dai-go Ji temple, Kyoto, is illustrated in their special exhibition of Chinese Ceramics, The Most Popular Works Among Japanese, 1991, no. 19; a further example was sold by Christie’s London in their auction of The Peony Pavilion Collection: Chinese Tea Ceramics for Japan 1580-1650, 12thJune 1989, lot 315.
- This mark appears on three ko-akai, wucai, plates published by Marchant in Ming Porcelain for the Japanese Market, ko-sometsuke and ko-akai,2008, nos. 38-40, pp. 74-79 (no. 38, published by Yamanaka Shokai in 1933, is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art).
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