A LATE MING WUCAI 'IMMORTALS' BOWLS

VARIOUS PROPERTIES

Details

A LATE MING WUCAI 'IMMORTALS' BOWLS
WANLI SIX-CHARACTER MARK WITHIN DOUBLE-CIRCLES AND OF THE PERIOD (1573-1619)

Freely painted around the exterior in wucai enamels with four Daoist immortals, two riding a phoenix and a stork in flight towards a balustraded garden landscaped with bamboo and rockwork, where two other immortals are seated, waited on by three attendants, all between a lingzhi scroll at the rim and a classic scroll band encircling the foot, the interior centred with a dragon roundel and painted with detached foliate sprays around the rim
6 5/8 in. (16.8 cm.) diam., box

Lot Essay

A number of bowls of this type, painted in wucai with different scenes of the Daoist immortals in landscape are known: a pair from the collection of Christina Loke Balsara sold in these Rooms, 19 January 1988, lot 263; one in the Percival David Foundation, illustrated in the Catalogue, section 5, pl. VIII, no. 86; and another illustrated by S. Jenyns, Ming Pottery and Porcelain, London, 1953, pl. 98c.

More from IMPORTANT CHINESE CERAMICS

View All