Japanese Works of Art - 16th November 2023

Lot 707

A NEAR PAIR OF CHINESE KO-SOMETSUKE BLUE AND WHITE DISHES

Estimate £200 - £300 | Hammer £504

Inc. Buyers Premium

Description

A NEAR PAIR OF CHINESE KO-SOMETSUKE BLUE AND WHITE DISHES
17TH CENTURY

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 Dai Ming Chenghua nian zhi, both with a paper label reading 'Christie's 4 February 1999, lot 357', 21cm and 20.3cm. (2)

Provenance: from a British private collection, formed 1970-2003.