A RARE BLUE AND WHITE KOSOMETSUKE FIGURAL SAUCER DISH TIANQI...

A RARE BLUE AND WHITE KOSOMETSUKE FIGURAL SAUCER DISH TIANQI, 1621-1627 青花学士图碟 天启1621-1627 painted in the centre with a standing Chinese court official wearing a wide-brimmed hat and holding a hu tablet, probably about to approach the emperor, encircled by a crenulated border, painted in luminous tones of cobalt blue, the underside with sprays of branches, the base with six-character mark of Chenghua within a single ring, with wooden box 16.1cm diameter PROVENANCE: From a Private Collection, Tokyo. An identical dish from the same set is illustrated by Teresa Canepa and Katharine Butler in Leaping the Dragon Gate, The Sir Michael Butler Collection of Seventeenth-Century Chinese Porcelain, 2021, III.1.82, p 119

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