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A blue and white ko-sometsuke 'landscape' octagonal bowl and an octagonal 'fishermen' fluted dish, Ming dynasty, Tianqi period

Estimate

2,000 - 4,000 EUR

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Description

the base of the dish with an apocryphal six-character Chenghua mark in underglaze blue


Japanese wood box (3)


Diameter of larger 20.2 cm, 8 in.

Japanese Private Collection.

Hirano Kotoken Ltd., Tokyo, circa 1970. (bowl)

Jintsu Kunryu-do, Tokyo. (dish)

Compare a similarly painted dish with a foliate rim, also bearing a six-character Chenghua mark, illustrated by Katharine Butler and Theresa Canepa in Leaping the Dragon Gate: The Sir Michael Butler Collection of Seventeenth-Century Chinese Porcelain, London, 2021, p. 151, no. 1.218.