Chinese Transitional blue and white Porcelain ko-sometsuke saucer dishes

Ming blue and white pair of porcelain saucer dishes made for the Japanese market c1640 during the reign of the last Ming Emperor Chongzhen.

Known as Ko-sometsuke Chinese porcelain made for the Japanese market is painted with freedom and these are excellent examples. The dishes are moulded to the sides with a brown rim around the barbed /foliate edge.

The painting to the centre shows a bird - possibly a magpie - perched on a rock with peonies, grasses and insects.

excellent painting and colour

Double circle to the back around a six character Cheng Hua mark, an apocryphal mark to honour not deceive.

the wooden stands are a little wobbly.