AN IMPORTANT AND EXTREMELY RARE IRON-RED DECORATED BLUE AND WHITE ‘CHRYSANTHEMUM SCROLL’ BARBED-RIM FLOWER POT XUANDE SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE IN A HORIZONTAL LINE AND OF THE PERIOD (1426-1435) The flower pot is sturdily potted with deep rounded sides supported on a stepped base simulating a stand, rising to an everted, bracket-lobed rim. The exterior is decorated in rich cobalt blue with a broad band featuring chrysanthemum blossoms borne on scrolling tendrils, above a band of classic scroll around the foot, the inner mouth rim with a row of detached florette sprays, all reserved against a rich iron-red ground. The interior is plain. The base is unglazed, with a cross-shaped firing mark left by the setter on which it was placed in the kiln. Together with a watercolour depiction of the flower pot by the previous owner, Yakichiro Suma, painted in 1959. (2) 17 ¼ in. (44 cm.) diam., Japanese wood box Provenance Yakichiro Suma (1892 - 1970), a prominent Japanese diplomat in China from 1927 to 1937
AN IMPORTANT AND EXTREMELY RARE IRON-RED DECORATED BLUE AND WHITE ‘CHRYSANTHEMUM SCROLL’ BARBED-RIM FLOWER POT XUANDE SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE IN A HORIZONTAL LINE AND OF THE PERIOD (1426-1435) The flower pot is sturdily potted with deep rounded sides supported on a stepped base simulating a stand, rising to an everted, bracket-lobed rim. The exterior is decorated in rich cobalt blue with a broad band featuring chrysanthemum blossoms borne on scrolling tendrils, above a band of classic scroll around the foot, the inner mouth rim with a row of detached florette sprays, all reserved against a rich iron-red ground. The interior is plain. The base is unglazed, with a cross-shaped firing mark left by the setter on which it was placed in the kiln. Together with a watercolour depiction of the flower pot by the previous owner, Yakichiro Suma, painted in 1959. (2) 17 ¼ in. (44 cm.) diam., Japanese wood box Provenance Yakichiro Suma (1892 - 1970), a prominent Japanese diplomat in China from 1927 to 1937
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