A RARE BLUE AND WHITE KO-SOMETSUKE 'ELEPHANT' SERVING DISH

POSSIBLY 17TH CENTURY

细节

A RARE BLUE AND WHITE KO-SOMETSUKE 'ELEPHANT' SERVING DISH
possibly 17th century
Painted at the centre with a youth astride a recumbent elephant holding a single lotus above its head in its outstretched trunk, the sides with a key-fret-pattern band below the turquoise lipped rim, the elephant's body under a widely-crackled washed and combed glaze, frits
9in. (23cm.) diam.

拍品专文

Cf. the similar dish in the Sato Collection, exhibited in the Atami Museum of Art, June 1984, illustrated in Exhibition of Ko-sometsuke from the Sato Collection, Catalogue, no.25, and also in Sekai Toji Zenshu, Kawade Shobo Series, vol.II, no.122B; and the well-known very similar dish exhibited in Transitional Wares and Their Forerunners, Hong Kong Oriental Ceramic Society, 1981, Catalogue, pp.168-9, no. 134, also illustrated in Ko-sometsuke, Colour Section, p.115, no.90, and Monochrome Section, p.80, no.305, and subsequently sold in these Rooms as part of the Peony Pavilion Collection, 12 June 1989, lot 282