A Transitional Brown Rim Dish, made for the Japanese Market, painted to the interior in polychrome enamels six with chicks and a hen under two butterflies amid bamboo and coxcomb sprouting from the rocky ground, the base with apocryphal Jiajing Mark.
Chinese, Chongzhen, 1628-44
Diameter: 7 inches (17.78 cm)
Reference: for a similar example see 'Transitional Wares and Their Forerunners', Richard S. Kilburn, The Oriental Ceramic Society of Hong Kong, page 138 no. 160. He notes that 'the design of a hen with chicks under a coxcomb has been related to an album entitled Cao bei hua shi pu, published in 1621, in which a very similar print appears.'
Chinese, Chongzhen, 1628-44
Diameter: 7 inches (17.78 cm)
Reference: for a similar example see 'Transitional Wares and Their Forerunners', Richard S. Kilburn, The Oriental Ceramic Society of Hong Kong, page 138 no. 160. He notes that 'the design of a hen with chicks under a coxcomb has been related to an album entitled Cao bei hua shi pu, published in 1621, in which a very similar print appears.'
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