Jingdezhen, China
Ming Dynasty, Tianqi Period (1620-1627)
Moulded in the form of a leaf, raised on three squat feet, the interior very finely decorated with a scene of Zhou Dunyi (1017-1073) sitting under a willow tree beside a lotus pond, the underside with the stem and veins of the leaf. 3.5cm high, 18.6cm wide. Together with an old Japanese wooden box. Cat. 690. Item 10 in our exhibition Wabi-Sabi Blue: Kosometsuke for the Tea Room, 2025.
For a dish of the same design see Kosometsuke: Monochrome Section, Masahiko Kawahara, Kyoto Shoin Co., Ltd., 1977, p. 180 / pl. 703.
Note: Zhou Dunyi was a foundational Song Dynasty philosopher whose synthesis of Daoist cosmology and Confucian ethics laid the groundwork for neo-Confucian thought, linking moral cultivation to the natural order.
Condition report (carefully viewed under UV, strong light and magnification): natural crazing to the glaze, fritting to the rim.
Jingdezhen, China
Ming Dynasty, Tianqi Period (1620-1627)
Moulded in the form of a leaf, raised on three squat feet, the interior very finely decorated with a scene of Zhou Dunyi (1017-1073) sitting under a willow tree beside a lotus pond, the underside with the stem and veins of the leaf. 3.5cm high, 18.6cm wide. Together with an old Japanese wooden box. Cat. 690. Item 10 in our exhibition Wabi-Sabi Blue: Kosometsuke for the Tea Room, 2025.
For a dish of the same design see Kosometsuke: Monochrome Section, Masahiko Kawahara, Kyoto Shoin Co., Ltd., 1977, p. 180 / pl. 703.
Note: Zhou Dunyi was a foundational Song Dynasty philosopher whose synthesis of Daoist cosmology and Confucian ethics laid the groundwork for neo-Confucian thought, linking moral cultivation to the natural order.
Condition report (carefully viewed under UV, strong light and magnification): natural crazing to the glaze, fritting to the rim.
