A PAIR OF SMALL KOSOMETSUKE BLUE AND WHITE SAUCER DISHES

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细节

A PAIR OF SMALL KOSOMETSUKE BLUE AND WHITE SAUCER DISHES
TIANQI

Each with shallow, rounded sides, painted in the center with a musician seated on a stool playing a lute, within a single-line border, the exterior decorated with detached clouds between line borders, base with a seal mark; together with a kosometsuke tripod dish, Tianqi, the sides and rim raised above each monster-mask support to create an undulating rim decorated with series of pearls, leaves, clouds and petals, painted in the center with a bold design of trigrams radiating from concentric circles in the center, one dish with rim chips and a crack, fritting--5 5/8in. and 6 5/8in. (14.2 and 16.8cm.) across (3)

来源

Roy Leventritt Collection

拍品专文

These dishes depict one of the four elegant pastimes for any educated man with scholarly pretensions. Playing music, in this case the pipa (Japanese biwa), was one; the others were writing poetry and calligraphy, painting and playing Chinese chess, weiqi. See the set of three dishes with this decoration from the Peony Pavilion Collection sold at Christie's, London, June 12, 1989, lot 301

Produced in sets for the tea ceremony, roughly made, often crooked tripod dishes were highly praised for their unpretentious simplicity. Compare five tripod dishes from a set of six included in the exhibition, Chinese Ceramics from Japanese Collections, Asia Society, New York, 1977, Catalogue no. 69