Japanese Works of Art - 15th November 2022
Lot 8
A NEAR PAIR OF CHINESE KO-SOMETSUKE BLUE AND WHITE DISHES
Estimate £400 - £600
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Description
A NEAR PAIR OF CHINESE KO-SOMETSUKE BLUE AND WHITE DISHES
17TH CENTURY
Made for the Japanese market, each foliate dish decorated to the well with an egret wading amongst lotus, both with radiating patterns to the cavetto and a band of chevrons above, the rims with mushikui frits and each with branches to the reverse, one with a mark reading Da Ming Chenghua nian zhi, both with a paper label for 'Christie's 4 February 1999, lot 357', 21cm and 20.3cm. (2)
Provenance: from a British private collection, formed 1970-2003.