A CHINESE KO-AKAE DISH FOR THE JAPANESE MARKET

A CHINESE KO-AKAE DISH FOR THE JAPANESE MARKET

CHONGZHEN (1628-44)

The well decorated with the lone figure of a luohan carrying a bundle of books on a staff balanced over his shoulder, the monk gazing at the crashing waves before him, with a flowering prunus behind and a red sun amongst wispy clouds above, the decoration painted in underglaze blue and overglaze polychrome enamels; the rim with a brown edge and the base with a fuku mark, 21cm.

See Christie's London, The Peony Pavilion Collection: Chinese Tea Ceramics For Japan, 12th June 1989, lot 316 for a closely related dish inscribed underneath tian xia taiping (Peach under Heaven). Also, see Tokyo National Museum, Catalogue of Chinese Ceramics, p.136 no.564 for another example in the museum collections.