AN UNUSUAL PAIR OF CHINESE PORCELAIN BLUE AND WHITE KOSOMETS...

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£750

AN UNUSUAL PAIR OF CHINESE PORCELAIN BLUE AND WHITE KOSOMETSUKE SMALL DISHES
MING DYNASTY, TIANQI (1621-1627)
明天启 青花松下高仕碟一对
each painted with two scholars seated on a rocky promontory beneath an overhanging pine tree in a river landscape scene with a viewing pavilion in the distance, all within a double line in underglaze blue and beneath a crenulated castle wall border.
15.1cm diameter

PROVENANCE: From a private collection, Tokyo.

NOTE: A related dish of this size, also painted with two scholars seated on a rocky promontory and surrounded by a crenulated castle wall border was included by Yukichi Inouye in the 2013 exhibition by T. Edo Inouye & Son 2013 of 100 Kosometsuke Chinese Blue and White Porcelain Small Dishes for the Japanese Market in the Ming Dynasty, no. 66.


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Both rims with mushikui, frits.