Two Pairs of Late Ming Shonzui-Style Dishes

CHONGZHEN PERIOD (1628-1644)

Details

Two Pairs of Late Ming Shonzui-Style Dishes
Chongzhen period (1628-1644)
The first pair of square form with shaped corners, decorated on the interior with figures in a mountainous setting, all picked out in iron-red and green, turquoise, black, yellow and aubergine enamels, the rim dressed in brown; the second pair of hexagonal shape, decorated on the interior with trees and shrubs issuing from rockwork carved in relief, picked out in underglaze blue and overglaze green, red, yellow and black enamels, the rim dressed in brown
5½ and 5 3/8in. (14 and 13.8cm.) wide, stands
The hexagonal dishes: Falk Collection no. 277. (4)

Provenance

Square dishes: Mathias Komor, New York, March 1967.
Hexagonal dishes: Mathias Komor , New York, February 1968.

Further details

See illustration of two

Lot Essay

Dishes of identical size and shape and with similar decoration to both pairs in this lot are in the Michael Butler Collection and are illustrated in Chinese Porcelain, The Transitional Period, 1620-1683, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands, 1986, p. 34, no. 27, and p. 37, no. 32.

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