A KUBACHI POTTERY DISH with sloping rim on short foot, the brilliant white interior painted under the broadly crackled glaze with a delicately drawn polychrome floral tree overhung by a similar weeping tree with large colourful leaves, a stylised stream with floral tussocks below, in a white border of flowerheads and roundels divided by grassy knolls springing from a narrow blue stripe, the exterior plain save for a single black line, 16th century (very slight glaze chips) | Christie's

Lot 385

385

A KUBACHI POTTERY DISH with sloping rim on short foot, the brilliant white interior painted under the broadly crackled glaze with a delicately drawn polychrome floral tree overhung by a similar weeping tree with large colourful leaves, a stylised stream with floral tussocks below, in a white border of flowerheads and roundels divided by grassy knolls springing from a narrow blue stripe, the exterior plain save for a single black line, 16th century (very slight glaze chips)

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A KUBACHI POTTERY DISH with sloping rim on short foot, the brilliant white interior painted under the broadly crackled glaze with a delicately drawn polychrome floral tree overhung by a similar weeping tree with large colourful leaves, a stylised stream with floral tussocks below, in a white border of flowerheads and roundels divided by grassy knolls springing from a narrow blue stripe, the exterior plain save for a single black line, 16th century (very slight glaze chips)
13¾in. (35.1cm.) diam.

Lot Essay

For a plate with a similar composition of the main field see a piece in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York published in U.A. Pope: A Survey of Persian Art, Ashiya, 1981, pl. 794 A.

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