A RARE MING WUCAI SQUARE ZUN-FORM VASE

拍品 1991

1991

THE PROPERTY OF A PROMINENT ASIAN COLLECTOR

A RARE MING WUCAI SQUARE ZUN-FORM VASE

细节

A RARE MING WUCAI SQUARE ZUN-FORM VASE
WANLI SIX-CHARACTER MARK WITHIN DOUBLE-SQUARES AND OF THE PERIOD (1573-1619)

Sturdily potted in archaic bronze form, the mid-section well enamelled with four panels each enclosing a scholar under a pine tree, divided by stylised lotus sprays at the canted corners, between a key-fret band around the spreading foot and a lingzhi scroll on the angled shoulder, the widely flaring trumpet mouth with a dragon on each face chasing a 'flaming pearl' amidst multi-coloured clouds, the interior of the mouth with double lingzhi sprays
5 in. (12.7 cm.) high, wood stand, box

来源

The Tsui Art Foundation, Hong Kong
Previously sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 10 April 2006, lot 1778

出版

Mayuyama, Seventy Years, vol. 1, Tokyo, 1976, p. 312, no. 928
Ceramic Art of the World, vol. 14, Ming Dynasty, Shogakukan, 1976, p. 204, no. 209
L. A. Cort and J. Stuart, Joined Colors, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Simthsonian Institution, Washington D.C., 1993, p. 127, no. 54

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The present vase belongs to a small group of similarly decorated Wanli-marked vases, including an example from the Idemistu Art Gallery, illustrated in Chinese Ceramics in the Idemitsu Collection, Japan, 1987, pl. 740; and a vase from the Edward T. Chow Collection, sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 19 January 1981, lot 434. Two further vases were sold at Christie's Hong Kong: the first was sold, 31 March 1992, lot 566 and the other, 1 November 2004, lot 1102.