dish

Catalog note / 解説

Porcelain dish painted in overglaze enamels. This warped dish has flared sides and an everted rim with a tapering gritty foot. Painted in a typical late Ming palette of red, green, yellow, aubergine and black enamels, the design covers the whole of the dish and the rim is edged in brown enamel. A hen is shown surrounded by six chicks. One perches on her back and flaps its wings, two more wrestle with a worm in front of her and three others look on. Above, a bug and a butterfly are flying towards a large tree peony and bamboo plant. On the base is an illegible seal mark within a double square in dark underglaze blue.