FOUR CHARACTER TIANQI MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

細節

An underglaze blue and enamelled Kaiseki serving plate
Four character Tianqi mark and of the period
Decorated in iron-red, green, yellow and black enamels on underglaze blue with a mythical female figure standing on a cloud, holding a bundle over her shoulder and riding a cloud raft, besides a two-line poem and within cloud clusters and breaking waves, minute frittings
16.6 cm. diam.

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拍品專文

The poem on this dish translates: 'auspicious clouds slung over the shoulders sweeping empty chambers'. The Japanese call this group of Tianqi-marked wares with red enamel decoration Tenkei-ake-e: see Little, Chinese Ceramics, no.13.
For another example see Princessehof Museum, Chinese Porcelain, The Transitional Period, 1620-1627, p.13, pl.34 and Butler, Medley and Little, Seventeenth Century Chinese Porcelain from the Butler Family Collection, pl.21. For dishes with similar motifs see Kawahara, Ko-Sometsuke, monochrome edition, pl.567-568.