A large blue and white 'deer and pine' charger, Ming dynasty, 16th century.
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Decorated with group of deers in a landscape setting with pine trees, lingzhi fungus, peaky mountains and a water-fall. Around the rim Buddhist emblems alternating with flowers. The reverse decorated with further fruits and flowers. Diameter 46 cm.
Restored. Fritting. Firingspots.
Provenance
Property of a private Finnish Collection.
The collection was formed between 1980-2020, the collector has had an interest in China and Chinese Works of Art since childhood, growing up in Beijing. He returned to China in grownup years for work, he came to live in China altogether more than 40 years. His love of China, and Chinese works of art is mirrored in the collection and being an academic collector, he never got tired of learning more about the subject by studying literature, attending lectures, visiting museums, auction houses and befriending curators from Peking, Hong Kong, London, Paris, and Stockholm. The collection consists of both Chinese ceramics and textiles, This being part 1.
Purchased at Bukowskis 2009, Sale 554, lot no 1459.
Literature
Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul, Ming dynasty. Compare dishes of this kind of designs on page 616-617.