A UNUSUAL LATE MING BLUE AND WHITE BOWL

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A UNUSUAL LATE MING BLUE AND WHITE BOWL
ENCIRCLED WANLI MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

The large, deep bowl painted around the sides with a continuous landscape framing The Eight Daoist Immortals, each with their various attributes, in a procession approaching Shoulao, seated under a peach tree beside a crane, the interior medallion enclosing Xi Wangmu astride a crane in flight holding a peach, the base inscribed Wanli nian zhi yu tang jia qi (Made in the Wanli period, Fine vessel for the Jade Hall), the cobalt of vibrant blue tone
9 3/4 in. (24.5 cm.) diam.

Literature

S. Marchant & Son, 17th Century Blue & White & Copper-Red exhibition Catalogue, 1997, no. 10.

Lot Essay

Cf. a dish painted with the same subject and mark in the Percival David Foundation, London, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The Worlds' Great Collections, vol. 6, fig. 175. John Ayers, The Koger Collection, pl. 60, illustrates another bowl decorated with dragon roundels with an identical mark.

(US$24,000-28,000)

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