JIAJING-WANLI PERIOD, 16TH-17TH CENTURY

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A BLUE AND WHITE PEAR-SHAPED EWER
JIAJING-WANLI PERIOD, 16TH-17TH CENTURY
The ewer is decorated on each side with a peach-shaped panel, in one an attendant offers a dish of peaches to Shoulao who holds a ruyi scepter while seated beneath a pine tree, and on the reverse a female attendant presents a large peach to a seated female immortal holding a hu tablet, all surrounded by the Eight Daoist Immortals and cruciform clouds and flanked by the tall, curved spout and strap handle. A four-character fu shou kang ning ('good fortune, longevity, good health and peace') mark within a double rectangle is written in underglaze blue on the base.
9 1/8 in. (23.2 cm.) high, Japanese wood box inscribed by Hirota Hokusai, the founder of Kochuhyo

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Lot Essay

The phrase, fu shou kang ning, is a birthday wish for good fortune, long life, good health and peace, and appears frequently on porcelains of the Jiajing and Wanli periods. The characters are sometimes inscribed on the base, such as on the present rare ewer, or they sometimes form the decoration of the vessel, such as the Wanli-marked bowl sold at Christie's New York, 16-17 September 2010, lot 1323, where the characters are formed by the twisted trunks of a pine tree, a prunus tree, a chrysanthemum stem and bamboo.

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