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TWO BLUE AND WHITE CIRCULAR SERVING DISHES, ONE A REVERSE-DECORATED BLUE AND WHITE AND POWDER-
WITH FRUIT, ONE WITH CHRYSANTHEMUM; TOGETHER WITH BLUE GROUND PETAL-LOBED CIRCULAR ‘DEER AND PINE’
AN ENAMELED BLUE AND WHITE SERVING DISH WITH FANS SERVING DISH
Tianqi/Chongzhen periods (1621-1644) Tianqi/Chongzhen periods (1621-1644)
The first dish painted with a leafy single branch bearing ripe speckled Precisely painted in a penciled blue on an attractively-blown powder-
fruit to the right side below a wisp of cloud and a fourteen-character blue-cobalt circular medallion, depicting a deer standing beside the
poem in two vertical lines to the left, the exterior with two wispy roots of a pine tree that rises amidst leafy bamboo spray, an un-painted
lotus tendrils; the second with a single leafy branch with three border of white within a further concentric ring of powder-blue below
chrysanthemum flowerheads with a butterfly nearby and with traces a plain lobed cavetto and brown-dressed petal-form rim, the exterior
of incised lotus decoration to the ground below, the exterior painted plain, the base with an encircled six-character Chenghua mark.
with two groups of delicately drawn bamboo, prunus blossom and a 7 3/4in (19.6cm) diameter
tree trunk, presumably pine, and lingzhi; the third with three ribboned-
fans, one with a dismounted horsemen, one with deer and another, $1,200 - 1,800
the central fan, with a poetic inscription, all within a chevron border,
the exterior with five equally-spaced ribboned emblems, (frits to all and
breaks to one). (3) 明天啟/崇禎 青花松鹿圖花口盤
8 1/4in (21cm) diameter the first two; 10 1/2in (26.6cm) diameter, the latter
For a near identical example, see Christie’s, London, The Peony
Pavilion Collection: Chinese Tea Ceramics for Japan (c.1580-1650),
$2,000 - 4,000 12 June 1989, lot 235 and illustrated by Richard Kilburn, ‘Transitional
Wares and Their Forerunners’, Hong Kong Oriental Ceramic Society,
明天啟/崇禎 青花花果紋盤兩件及五彩扇面圖盤 Catalogue, 1981, p. 167, no. 132 and also published by Mashiko
Kawahara, Ko-sometsuke, 2 Vols, Japan, 1977, Color Section, p. 163,
First Dish: For a very similar dish painted with a similar fruit branch no. 134 and Monochrome Section, p. 156, no. 617.
but a different poem, see Christie’s, London, The Peony Pavilion
Collection: Chinese Tea Ceramics for Japan (c.1580-1650), 12 June For other related examples see Stephen Little, Chinese Ceramics of
1989, lot 260. For another example see Exhibition of Ko-sometsuke the Transitional Period: 1620-1683, China Institute in America, New
from the Sato Collection, Atami Museum of Art, June 1984, no. 61. York, 1983, no. 34 and The Effie B. Allison Collection: Ko-sometsuke
Third Dish: See Mayuyama Seventy Years, Vol. I, Tokyo, 1976, p.333, and other Chinese Blue-and-White Porcelain, Asian Art Museum of San
no. 996, for a near identical dish with the same inscription. Francisco, March-June 1982, no. 34

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