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FIVE SMALL WUCAI DISHES
LATE MING
Each of hexagonal form, enamelled in shades of aubergine, iron-red, green, yellow and black with two cockerels, the border with three butterflies alternating with floral sprays, underglaze blue square seal marks
5¼ in. (13.3 cm.) diameter (5)

Lot Essay

For a similar dish from the Michael Butler Collection see Chinese Porcelain, The Transitional Period, 1620-1683, New York, 1983, p. 34, no. 25; and another, illustrated by Richard Kilburn in Transitional Wares and their Forerunners, Hong Kong, 1981, no. 152.

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