TWO RARE BLUE AND WHITE SHONZHUI-STYLE SERVING DISHES

CHONGZHEN PERIOD (1628-1644)

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TWO RARE BLUE AND WHITE SHONZHUI-STYLE SERVING DISHES
CHONGZHEN PERIOD (1628-1644)
Each is heavily potted with shallow rounded sides rising to a brown-dressed, irregularly lobed rim. The interior is decorated with four single characters in a vertical line and two magpies, one perched in a blossoming plum tree, while the other is in flight above, all reserved on a wan and starburst-diaper ground below alternating decorative panels in the well. Foliate scroll, one incorporating birds and flowers, encircles each exterior, and a fu mark is on each base.
7¾ in. (19.7 cm.) diam. (2)

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The Estate of Dr. Walter Compton; Christie's New York, 1 December 1994, lot 390.

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The characters read xi bao chun kui (magpies portend the arrival of early signs of Spring). These dishes would therefore be appropriate for a New Year tea ceremony, where the allusion to plum blossom would be very recognizable.
Compare a similar example in the Tokyo National Museum illustrated in the Catalogue of Chinese Ceramics, 1965, p. 115, no. 478, and another illustrated in The Effie B. Allison Collection: Ko-sometsuke and other Chinese Blue-and-White Porcelain, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, March - June 1982, no. 36, and discussed by the author in the article, "Chinese Ceramics for the Japanese Tea Masters," Arts of Asia, March - April 1987. See, also, the example from The Peony Pavilion Collection, sold at Christie's London, 12 June 1989, lot 222, and front cover illustration.