Lot 71 , A Chinese Ming wucai porcelain Kaiseki dish, Chongzhen period c.1635, made for the Japanese market

A Chinese Ming wucai porcelain Kaiseki dish, Chongzhen period c.1635, made for the Japanese market, painted with a monkey, a deer, rockwork, a peach tree, a bird and butterfly in flight, within polychrome chequered borders, apocryphal underglaze blue Chenghua six character mark, 20.5cm diameter

Literature- a similar dish is published in 'Transitional Wares and Their Forerunners' An exhibition presented by the Oriental Ceramics Society of Hong Kong at the Hong Kong Museum of Art in 1981 page 139, plate 162 in the catalogue.
£800-1,200

Condition:
The dish is slightly warped in firing, typical glaze imperfections, otherwise in good condition.

Sold for £1,300