A RARE PAIR OF LATE MING ENAMELED HEXAGONAL DISHES

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A RARE PAIR OF LATE MING ENAMELED HEXAGONAL DISHES
CHONGZHEN PERIOD (1628-1644)

Finely enamelled in tones of iron-red, green, turquoise, aubergine and yellow with a central panel of a crane wading in a thickly-grown lotus pond, the border with panels of sea creatures and a mythical three-legged toad, reserved on differing geometric grounds, the reverse plain
8 1/8 in. (20.5 cm.) diam., Japanese wood box (2)

来源

A Japanese private collection

拍品专文

These dishes were made for export for use in the Japanese Tea ceremony.

A dish of this pattern from the Peony Pavilion Collection was sold in our London Rooms, 12 June 1989, lot 370. Compare also to the less elaborate dish of similar pattern included in Transitional Wares and their Forerunners , Hong Kong Oriental Ceramic Society, 1981, p. 141, no. 167; and another illustrated by John Ayers The Baur Collection, Geneva, 1969, vol. II, no. A 237.