Set of three Chinese porcelain ko-akae, wucai, polychrome lozenge shape dishes, Tianqi/ Chongzhen 1625-1630

A set of three Chinese porcelain ko-akae, wucai, polychrome lozenge shape dishes with foliate flutted rims, each painted with a seated figure of Budai, resting against his long staff holding a necklace in his right hand and the edge of his treasure sack, beside the edge of rocky promontory with an overhanging pine tree beneath iron-red cloud within an iron-red border, the rim dressed brown. The base with a two characters mark of Taiping within a double rectangle,

Tianqi/ Chongzhen 1625-1630

7 ¼ inches, 18.5cm at the widest measurement

£12,500 set of three or £4,250 each.

• From an old French collection
• A dish from the same set, exhibited at the Princessehof Museum, 1986 Chinese Porcelain: The Transitional Period 1620-1683, A Selection from the Michael Butler Collection and is illustrated by Sir Michael Butler, Margaret Medley and Stephen Little in Seventeenth Century Chinese Porcelain from the Butler Family Collection, no.31, p.69

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This object is eligible for a Certificate of BADA Provenance

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