Lot Essay
See for a similar example of the celadon saucer dish The wrestling boys, Burghley House, 1983, p.45, No.115.
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EDO PERIOD (CIRCA 1690 AND 1780)
Details
An underglaze blue and a celadon saucer dish
Edo Period (Circa 1690 and 1780)
Decorated in black and green enamels and gilt on a washed-blue ground with a bird in flight above a prunus tree, surrounded by stylised clouds alternated by flower-heads below the wavy rim, rubbed, crack; and a dish shaped as a flower-head, the petal-moulded celadon sides enclosing a roundel of the Three Friends bamboo, prunus and pine in underglaze blue, the reverse with a six character Chinese Chenghua mark
21.2 and 20.9 cm. diam. (2)
Edo Period (Circa 1690 and 1780)
Decorated in black and green enamels and gilt on a washed-blue ground with a bird in flight above a prunus tree, surrounded by stylised clouds alternated by flower-heads below the wavy rim, rubbed, crack; and a dish shaped as a flower-head, the petal-moulded celadon sides enclosing a roundel of the Three Friends bamboo, prunus and pine in underglaze blue, the reverse with a six character Chinese Chenghua mark
21.2 and 20.9 cm. diam. (2)
Exhibited
Ko-Imari porcelain from the Collection of Oliver Impey, Barry Davies Oriental Art, London, 1997, no. 100 and 107.
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