CHINE, DYNASTIE MING, MARQUE CYCLIQUE INCISEE A HUIT CARACTERES ET DATE DE L'ANNEE JI CHOU DE L'EPOQUE WANLI (1589)

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PLAT EN LAQUE ROUGE, VERTE ET OCRE SCULPTEE
CHINE, DYNASTIE MING, MARQUE CYCLIQUE INCISEE A HUIT CARACTERES ET DATE DE L'ANNEE JI CHOU DE L'EPOQUE WANLI (1589)
De forme circulaire, le médaillon central décoré d'un massif de fleurs émergeant d'un rocher, sous un ciel nuageux où volent papillons et abeilles, sur fond de motifs géométriques et svastika, la bordure ornée de quatre cartouches de pivoines, le revers d'une frise de lotus et rinceaux feuillagés, la base laquée noire portant la marque cyclique à six caractères incisés et soulignés à l'or de l'Empereur Wanli
Diamètre: 25,5 cm. (10 in.)

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A CARVED THREE-COLOUR LACQUER DISH
CHINA, MING DYNASTY, INCISED AND GILDED CYCLICAL EIGHT-CHARACTER MARK AND DATED FROM JI CHOU YEAR OF WANLI (1589)

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Ce plat est daté de l'année Ji Chou de l'Epoque Wanli (1589).
This dish is dated from Ji Chou year of Wanli (1589).

Lot Essay

Compare with a similar dish although with a cyclical Wanli eight-character mark offered in our London Rooms, 19 June 2001, lot 161.
See also a Wanli box with a similar decoration on the cover, from the Qing Court Collection, illustrated in Lacquer Wares of the Yuan and Ming Dynasties, The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Hong Kong 2006, pl.170. The central medallion carved through layers of red, green and ochre lacquer is also divided in three parts: the ground, the middle part with rock, flowers and bird and the sky with clouds.

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