A CHINESE BLUE & WHITE SAUCER DISH, TIANQI (1661-1627)
Finely potted porcelain, painted with a frog sitting beside feathery weeds, the well encircled by a band of ruyi lappets enclosing stylised sprigs, the narrow everted rim with a formal...
Finely potted porcelain, painted with a frog sitting beside feathery weeds, the well encircled by a band of ruyi lappets enclosing stylised sprigs, the narrow everted rim with a formal border of overlapping lappets, the underside painted with peach branches, the reverse painted with three flower sprays on the flattened rim, the well further decorated with two flower sprays, the foot glazed with sand adhering to the footrim
Literature
For a dish of this design see Transitional Wares and Their Forerunners, O.C.S. Hong Kong 1981, cat. no. 11. Another, from the Max Robertson collection was exhibited in The Animal in Chinese Art, O.C.S., London. 1968, no 485, and sold by Sotheby?s London on 18th May 1971.
