A CHINESE KO AKAE-STYLE MUKOZUKE (SMALL DISH)

A CHINESE KO AKAE-STYLE MUKOZUKE (SMALL DISH)

QING DYNASTY OR LATER

Made for the Japanese market, the square dish decorated in polychrome enamels with two fishermen on a sampan, both men depicted standing, one holding a net; with branches of willow above and lotus leaves beside them, the base with an underglaze blue Wenguang (literary lustre) seal mark, 13.6cm.

See Christie's London, The Peony Pavilion Collection: Chinese Tea Ceramics For Japan (c.1580-1650), 12th June 1989, lot 367, for a dish with the same design. Also, see K Butler and T Canepa, Leaping the Dragon Gate, The Sir Michael Butler Collection of Seventeenth-century Chinese Porcelain, figs. III.1.299 and III.1.300, for two other dishes with the same style of decoration but depicting different scenes.