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A blue and white Shonzui style circular 'hare' serving dish
Tianqi (1621-1627)Painted at the center with a hare with a lingzhi in its mouth reserved on a blue-ground circular medallion which is itself reserved on a larger quartered medallion with scales, Y-pattern, diaper-cell and key-fret with wan below conjoined cash symbol at the well and a classic scroll reserved on the border, the exterior with blossoms and foliage. 8 1/4in (21cm) diameter
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明天啟 青花祥瑞式玉兔盤For a very similar example see Christie's, London, The Peony Pavilion Collection: Chinese Tea Ceramics for Japan (c.1580-1650), 12 June 1989, lot 219 and also illustrated by M. Kawahara, Ko-sometsuke, 2 Vols. 1977, p. 160, no. 632.Other examples of this rare design can be found in Chinese Porcelain, The Transitional Period (1620-1683): a selection from the Michael Butler Collection, Princesshof Museum, Leeuwarden, Netherlands, 1986, p. 29, no. 17. and another in the full shonzui style with the same type of elaborate trellis-pattern ground centered by a hare but with elaborate roundels at the border, see The 15th Anniversary Catalogue, Idemitsu Museum of Arts, Tokyo, 1981, p.211, no. 929.
