A CHINESE KOSOMETSUKE MOULDED 'BIRD' DISH

Late Ming Dynasty, Tianqi Period

明天啟 外銷青花花鳥圖盤

The cavetto moulded to form two rows of petals, painted to the centre with a lone bird perched atop a rocky outcrop amidst large flowering peonies and insects, the base with a six-character Chenghua mark within a double ring,

19cm diameter

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NOTE:

A related dish, with similar moulded cavetto and central decoration, was sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 30th November 2018, lot 3018, and illustrated in T. Canepa and K. Butler, 'Leaping the Dragon Gate: The Sir Michael Butler Collection of Seventeenth-Century Chinese Porcelain', 2021, p. 110, pl. III.1.68.

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