R&G McPherson Antiques
est 1980
We specialise in Oriental ceramics, including Song, Yuan and Ming Monochromes, Export porcelain, Kangxi &Qianlong, Blanc de Chine and shipwreck ceramics
40 Kensington Church Street
London
W8 4BX
England
Opening Hours
Open Monday-Friday 10-5.30; Saturday by appointment
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Item Stock Code
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22463
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Item Medium Description
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China
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Item Diameter
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21.20cm
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Converted Diameter
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8.35 inches
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Item Provenance & History
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Rafi Mottahedeh Collection, no.1033.
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Item Literature
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or a Kakiemon style dish of the same design from the collection of Gerald Reitlinger see : Japanese Porcelain (Soame Jenyns, Faber and Faber, 1965) plate 69. Another example is illustrated in : The Burghley Porcelains, An Exhibition from The Burghley House Collection and Based on the 1688 Inventory and 1690 Devonshire Schedule (Japan Society, New York,1986) page 82. Another Japanese porcelain dish of this pattern dated to c.1750 appears in : Ko-Imari Porcelain From The Collection Of Oliver Impey (Barry Davies Oriental Art Ltd, London, 1997).
China for the West, Chinese Porcelain & other Decorative Arts for Export Illustrated from the Mottahedeh Collection (David S. Howard and John Ayers, Sotheby`s,1978) Volume 1, page 125, plate 104.
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Item Exhibition History
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Girton College, Cambridge, Two Quail, Exhibition Catalogue, 2004, no.3.
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Current Item Condition
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Some light rubbing, especially to the two quail and the center. The foot rim with a dark fracture type crack c.30 mm.
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Item Description / Dealer Expertise
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The Thickly Potted Shallow Form, Painted in Underglaze Blue and Coloured Enamels with Two Quail Beside Clumps of Wakamatsu and Flowering Kiku. The Reverse with Birds and Flowering Plants in Underglaze Blue, the Base with a Running Fuku Mark.
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Status
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SOLD
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