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A blue and white and enameled Shonzui-style circular deep basin
Chongzhen (1628-1644) Painted at the center in a mix of underglaze blue and overglaze enamels and iron-red with five small circular medallions each painted with a differing flowerhead, all reserved on a larger quartered cell-ground medallion picked out in iron-red with Y-pattern, hexagonal diaper, blossoms on scales and a square star-burst diaper, the deep cavetto further decorated in a mix of underglaze blue and overglaze enamels with branches of flowering peony, chrysanthemum, prunus blossom and pomegranate divided by single birds in flight and a butterfly, the everted rim painted in iron-red with furter flowerheads and cell pattern, the exterior sides painted in enamels green, brown, black and iron-red with two groupings of the so-called 'three-friends-of-winter', pine, bamboo and cherry blossom each divided by a flying bird, the rim-edge dressed in an iron-brown glaze. 10in (25.4cm) diameter
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明崇禎 五彩祥瑞式折沿大盤For a dish of similar shonzui type painted with five medallions reserved on a multi-cell ground and similarly dressed at the rim in iron-brown, see Christie's, London, The Peony Pavilion Collection: Chinese Tea Ceramics for Japan (c.1580-1650), 12 June 1989, lot 318, where attention is drawn to the likelihood that such pieces were a 'special commission' ordered from China by the Japanese for the tea-ceremony, which in view of the bold coloring may have been destined for the 'daimyo-cha' or 'pretty' tea (kirei-sabi) for aristocratic ladies, where such bright pieces would be more acceptable than in Rikyu-style austere tea
