Arts d'Asie

A blue and white 'pheasants' foliate dish, Ming dynasty, Tianqi / Chongzhen period

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Auction Closed

June 11, 03:42 PM GMT

Estimate

2,600 - 4,000 EUR

Lot Details

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Description

the base with an apocryphal six-character Chenghua mark in underglaze blue within a double circle

Japanese wood box (2)

Diameter 23.6 cm, 9¼ in.

Nagoya Private Collection.

Compare a similar dish with two cranes, illustrated by Zenta, Tokyo, in their 10thanniversary catalogue, p. 23; and another sold at Christie’s London, 12th June 1989, lot 221. A related shonzui hariki dish of this large size and shape with a similar border and underside was included in Kosometsuke and Shonzui, Marchant, London, 2024, cat. no. 48.

A shard painted with the similar underside and another shard of a large hariki dish of similar shape excavated at Jingdezhen in the Tianqi/Zhongzheng strata is illustrated in Huang Qinghua, Colourful Japan – The Special Exhibition of the Ordered Porcelains at the End of the Ming Dynasty From Japan, Jingdezhen, 2021, p. 121.

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