Lot Essay
Compare a similar dish illustrated by R. Kilburn in the Oriental Ceramic Society of Hong Kong exhibition catalogue, Transitional Wares and their Forerunners, 1981, no. 162.
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CHENGHUA MARK, CHONGZHEN PERIOD, CIRCA 1628-1644
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A Wucai Dish
Chenghua mark, Chongzhen period, circa 1628-1644
Painted in the center with a scene of a monkey seated on rocks beneath a fruiting peach tree, with a recumbent deer nearby and a bird and insects in flight above, all below the shallow well and the everted rim painted with four cartouches of flower sprigs reserved on a ground of multicolored lozenge pattern, with brown-dressed outer edge
8in. (20.3cm.) diam.
Chenghua mark, Chongzhen period, circa 1628-1644
Painted in the center with a scene of a monkey seated on rocks beneath a fruiting peach tree, with a recumbent deer nearby and a bird and insects in flight above, all below the shallow well and the everted rim painted with four cartouches of flower sprigs reserved on a ground of multicolored lozenge pattern, with brown-dressed outer edge
8in. (20.3cm.) diam.