A Group of Four Dishes Ming Dynasty, Tianqi Period

comprising: a copper-red and underglaze blue dish painted with a fisherman sitting in a sampan by the riverbank with willows, a pair of blue and white dishes each decorated with a pair of geese amongst millet stalks, and a blue and white barbed saucer with mountains in a river landscape

Chinese Blue and White Porcelain and Related Underglaze Red, City Museum and Art Gallery, Hong Kong, 1975, cat. no. 72 (pair of dishes).
Chinese Ceramics of the Transitional Period (circa 1620-1680 A.D.) from the Collection of Mr & Mrs Peter Thompson, Hull University, Hull, 1985, cat. nos. 79, 80, 81, and 83.

Copper-red and underglaze blue dish: extensive glaze frits to rim; a firing crack to base (30mm); several glaze inclusions and other minor firing imperfections. The pair of blue and white dishes: some glaze frits to rim; kiln grit adhered to foot; other minor firing imperfections. The barbed saucer: minor fritting to rim; minor firing imperfections.
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