TWO CHINESE DISHES FOR THE JAPANESE MARKET

TWO CHINESE DISHES FOR THE JAPANESE MARKET, KO-SOMETSUKE

TIANQI 1621-27

One shaped as a double gourd, the decoration to the well divided in two negative halves, the upper one with a beribboned fan on a white ground and the lower with a double gourd on a blue ground, raised on three double gourd-shaped feet; the other dish of quatre-lobed form painted with a crab amongst stylised waves, raised on four short feet, 18.9cm and 16.5cm respectively. (2)