A CHINESE KO-SOMETSUKE DISH FOR THE JAPANESE MARKET

A CHINESE KO-SOMETSUKE DISH FOR THE JAPANESE MARKET
TIANQI/CHONGZHEN, 17TH CENTURY

Decorated in underglaze blue, the well painted with a fisherman on a sampan, a two-storey pavilion in the distance; the rim with a flower-shaped lappet border and mushikui; the reverse with two leafy sprays; together with a tomobako (wood box), 21cm. (2)

Provenance: from a private collection, London.

See T Edo Inouye & Son, Collected and Selected Seventy-Seven Dishes from the Late Ming, Seventeenth-Century, Kosometsuke, no. 45 for a dish of similar form and border, painted to the centre with fish.