Late Ming Dynasty
Comprising: a blue and white bowl decorated to the exterior with three gamboling lions amongst peonies and scrolling foliage, the interior with a floral medallion, Yu Tang Jia Qi four character-mark; a small saucer dish with a mountain landscape medallion within a border of birds in a lotus pond, the exterior with birds perched on branches; a small saucer dish with a toad and insects amongst grasses within a border of floral pendants, the exterior with fruiting peach branches; and a moulded Kraak ware dish decorated with a grasshopper on a flowering riverbank within peach shaped border panels enclosing fruit, flowers and precious objects.
The dish: 20cm (7 7/8in) diam. (4).
Footnotes
明晚期 青花瓷一組四件
Provenance: Acquired from R & G McPherson Antiques, 2005 (the toad dish)(collector's notes)
Acquired from Arthur Harris, London, 2006 (the Kraak ware dish)(collector's notes)
Acquired from R & G McPherson Antiques, October 2009 (the mountain landscape dish)(collector's notes)
: M. White, , vol. 3, n.p., 2022, p.49 (the lion bowl)