Lot Essay
Compare a similar wucai beaker vase illustrated in Gems of Beijing Cultural Relics Series - Pottery and Porcelain II, Beijing, 1999, p. 214, no. 217.
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TRANSITIONAL PERIOD, CIRCA 1650-1665
Details
A WUCAI BEAKER VASE
TRANSITIONAL PERIOD, CIRCA 1650-1665
The trumpet-form neck decorated with a procession of a scholar seated astride a qilin followed by an attendant bearing gifts, below a narrow 'cracked-ice' border, with flowering branches on the middle section and with two fruiting branches on the lower section, one bearing large peaches
16 in. (40.5 cm.) high
TRANSITIONAL PERIOD, CIRCA 1650-1665
The trumpet-form neck decorated with a procession of a scholar seated astride a qilin followed by an attendant bearing gifts, below a narrow 'cracked-ice' border, with flowering branches on the middle section and with two fruiting branches on the lower section, one bearing large peaches
16 in. (40.5 cm.) high
Provenance
Property sold to benefit the Victims of September 11th, Sotheby's, New York, 27 March 2003, lot 70 (part).