AN UNUSUAL CHINESE PORCELAIN BLUE AND WHITE KOSOMETSUKE SAUC...

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£100 - £150

AN UNUSUAL CHINESE PORCELAIN BLUE AND WHITE KOSOMETSUKE SAUCER DISH
MING DYNASTY, TIANQI (1620-1627)
明天启 青花‘鸣群秌雁’碟
painted in the centre with two pairs of characters within a rectangle on a stylised blue wave ground, encircled by a large flock of birds at the rim, the underside with stylised pearls, the base unglazed
13.5cm diameter

PROVENANCE: From a private Japanese collection, Tokyo. Sold by Yukichi Inouye, April 2019, stock number 9874.

NOTE: The two pairs of characters in the centre are Tao Yan Ming Qun, “In autumn, flocks of geese call and fly together”.
An identical dish from the same set was included by Yukichi Inouye in the T. Edo Inouye & Son 2013 exhibition of 100 Kosometsuke Chinese Blue and White Porcelain Small Dishes for the Japanese Market in the Ming Dynasty, no. 88.
A related character dish of similar style, with pens on the border, is illustrated in Huang Qinghua in Colourful Japan: Special Exhibition of the Porcelains Made at the End of Ming Dynasty for Japan, exhibition catalogue, Tang Ying Society, Jingdezhen, 2018, no. 27, pp. 195/6.


Marchant: ‘Moving to Brook Street’
To be offered without reserve

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Excellent condition.