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A BLUE AND WHITE LOTUS-PETAL-MOLDED ‘PINE AND BOAT’ DISH A BLUE AND WHITE AND ENAMELED ‘BIRDS AND BLOSSOM’
Chenghua Mark, Wanli/Tianqi (1573-1627) LOBED OCTAGONAL JAR AND COVER
Painted at the center with a figure in a boat beneath a pine and near 16th/17th Century
bamboo watching a flock of birds skimming above water, the scene The lobed sides painted with a continuous scene of two stocky large-
set within a blue-ground foliate border below a cavetto with two rows eyed birds, possibly shrikes, standing on alternate descending and
of fifteen lightly molded and painted radiating lotus petals divided at ascending prunus blossoms, possibly quince, painted in underglaze
the tips of the upper row with wan (swastika) symbols and each petal cobalt-blue and over-glaze enamels of green, black and a rusty-blood-
painted with individual flower and fruit sprays, all below the petal-form red, all between simple leaf lappets at the foot and a ruyi-head collar
blue-painted rim, the exterior sides with two rows of lotus petals below at the shoulder, the mouth edge partially glazed, the matching cover
alternating roundels of wan characters and lingzhi sprays, unmarked possibly an addition.
double circle to the base. 4in (10.1cm) high
8 3/4in (22.2cm) diameter
$2,500 - 4,000
$2,500 - 3,500
十六/十七世紀 青花五彩花鳥紋蓋罐
明萬曆/天啟 青花松下高仕圖蓮瓣盤

See another very similar dish illustrated by Stephen Little, in an article ‘Ko-
sometsuke in the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco’ from Orientations,
February 1982 and re-published in Chinese Ceramics, Selected articles
from Orientations, 1982-1998, Hong Kong, 1999, p. 19, fig 10.

For a scene, similar in concept to ours, but with a figure in a canopied
boat beneath willow rather than the pine of our example, see five Ko-
sometsuke kaiseki serving dishes sold at Christie’s, London, The Peony
Pavilion Collection: Chinese Tea Ceramics for Japan (c.1580-1650), 12
June 1989, lot 345.

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