AN UNUSUAL CHINESE PORCELAIN BLUE AND WHITE AND COLOURED ENA...

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£150 - £250

AN UNUSUAL CHINESE PORCELAIN BLUE AND WHITE AND COLOURED ENAMEL WUCAI, KO-AKAI, SMALL DEEP DISH
CHONGZHEN, CIRCA 1630
明崇祯 五彩洞石花卉纹盘
small deep dish, fluted with a scalloped rim, painted in the centre with large branches of bamboo amongst pierced rockwork in a pond, with plum blossom in yellow and iron-red, all beneath green leaves and aubergine branches, with two birds in flight beneath the sun and swirling clouds, with a brown washed rim, the underside with three leaves and buds in underglaze blue. The bases with six-character marks of Chenghua within a double ring in underglaze blue.
14.6cm diameter

NOTE: A related set of five dishes, of similar shape and size with landscapes are included by 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. 92, pp. 337/8.
A related pair of similar shape and size, painted with a hare beneath a bird in flight was included by Marchant in their 1989 exhibition of Transitional Wares for the Japanese and Domestic Markets, no. 100, pp. 56/7.


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Good condition.