L: 11.5cm
?FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION
?Two quatrefoil wucai Dishes, Tianqi
well painted in clear enamels, one with a central scene of two scholars boating on a river, and the other with a scholar contemplating lotus in a moonlit garden. From a private collection . ??A closely comparable dish, with a very similar boating party design, is illustrated as no. 57 in 'The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum: Porcelains in Polychrome and Contrasting Colours', Hong Kong 1999.
It is described as a' begonia flower shaped plate' in the title.
This group of Tianqi period wares were made for export to Japan, like the blue and white ko-sometsuke, and include many original shapes of dish not seen elsewhere in Chinese porcelain. Many of them would have been used to accompany the tea ceremony.
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