A rare pair of blue and white saucer dishes

DAOGUANG FOUR CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

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A rare pair of blue and white saucer dishes
Daoguang four character mark and of the period
Painted overall with a white, piebald and dark horse trotting in a circle, reserved on a blue-washed key-fret pattern ground below a wavy brown-edged rim (minute rim frittings)
16.8 cm diam. (2)

Lot Essay

This design is inspired by Tianqi Ko-sometsuke dishes for the tea ceremony. For Tianqi proto-types, see Ko-sometsuke, Monochrome Section, p.155, nos. 610-613. It also shows that it is rare to find a piebald horse in the group.

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