China, Set Of 10 Plates, Tianqi Chongzheng Porcelain, Ming, 17th Century.

China, Superb and extremely rare set of 10 Ko Sometsuke plates in blue and white porcelain for the Japanese market, Ming Dynasty, Tianqi period (1621-1627), The plates have an underglaze blue decoration of flowers and scrolls, Surrounded for 7 of them by four double coins, symbol of good fortune, 2 with stylized motifs and one without a motif, We can compare these plates to a similar dish found in the collections of Sir Michael Butler, Inv No 1270, and published in the work "Leaping the Dragon Gate", by Teresa Canepa and Katherine Butler, P149 Pl.III.1.190. In used condition, it is normal for this type of plates from this period to observe certain defects, Chips on the edge, Difference in the depths of blue, A firing crack on the reverse of the marly of one of them, The presence of oven gravel stuck to the base of each one, Normal cooking defects, Weight: 3500 gr, for the whole, Dimensions: approximately 21 cm.