WANLI PERIOD (1573-1619)

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AN UNUSUAL DOUCAI STEM CUP
WANLI PERIOD (1573-1619)
The sides of the bowl decorated with a scrolling grapevine with three leaves highlighted in green and a few grapes accented in aubergine, the stem foot decorated en suite, the interior painted with four fish in iron-red, the base with apocryphal Chenghua mark
4 3/16 in. (9.2 cm.) high

Provenance

Acquired in Maine in 1984.

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Lot Essay

A doucai stem cup painted in a similar style with a fruiting grape vine and bearing a Chenghua mark is illustrated by J. Harrison-Hall in Catalogue of Late Yuan and Ming Ceramics in the British Museum, London, 2001, p. 327, no. II:136, where it is dated Ming dynasty, c. 1573-1620.

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