A BLUE AND WHITE KOSOMETSUKE SHELL-FORM SWEETMEAT DISH

TIANQI PERIOD (1621-1627)

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A BLUE AND WHITE KOSOMETSUKE SHELL-FORM SWEETMEAT DISH
TIANQI PERIOD (1621-1627)
The dish is freely decorated to the interior with a large shrimp amongst waterweeds with trailing vines, surrounded by a single-line border following the shape of the spiralling shell. The exterior is decorated with pale cobalt blue splashes and the lines of the exterior follow the moulding of the shell, all standing on three cylindrical feet.
7 ¼ in. (18.5 cm.) long

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Lot Essay

Compare a set of five similar dishes illustrated in Masahiko Kawahara, Ko-sometsuke, Kyoto, 1977, p. 195, pl. 741, and a single dish in the collection of the Sekido Museum of Art, published in Kosometsuke, Tokyo, 2017, p. 149, no. 99.

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