Lot Essay
Compare the similarly dated dish of this size and pattern, but with the addition of ruyi-shaped clouds in the well, illustrated in Mayuyama, Seventy Years, Tokyo, 1976, vol. 1, p. 315, no. 942.
WANLI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD
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A WUCAI DRAGON AND PHOENIX DISH
Wanli Six-Character Mark in Underglaze Blue within a Double Circle and of the Period
The interior decorated with a leaping dragon surrounded by phoenix and clouds and further dragons and phoenix in the well, the exterior with four pairs of birds in fruiting trees within cartouches reserved on an iron-red diaper ground
8.5/8in. (22cm.) diam.
Wanli Six-Character Mark in Underglaze Blue within a Double Circle and of the Period
The interior decorated with a leaping dragon surrounded by phoenix and clouds and further dragons and phoenix in the well, the exterior with four pairs of birds in fruiting trees within cartouches reserved on an iron-red diaper ground
8.5/8in. (22cm.) diam.