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A blue and white 'peony' foliate dish, Ming dynasty, Early Chongzhen period

Auction Closed

June 11, 03:42 PM GMT

Estimate

2,000 - 3,000 EUR

Lot Details

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Description

the base with an apocryphal Jiajing six-character mark and a fu mark within a square, all in underglaze blue within a double circle


Diameter 20 cm, 7⅞ in.

Japanese Private Collection.

Nishikawa, Tokyo.

MenoMe, vol. 9, Nishikawa, Tokyo, September 2022, p. 63. 

Compare another dish from this set exhibited in Shonzui Wares, Jintsu Seigando, Toyama, 2024, cat. no. 5; and a similar set of five dishes of slightly smaller size with the same mark, preserved in the Idemitsu Museum of Art, Tokyo, illustrated in Kosometsuke & Shonzui, The Blue and White Tea Ceramics of Japanese Admiration, Tokyo, 2013, cat. no. 81.