A RARE AND LARGE BLUE AND WHITE PEAR-SHAPED VASE

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A RARE AND LARGE BLUE AND WHITE PEAR-SHAPED VASE
WANLI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD

The bulbous lower body well painted with three dragons leaping amidst composite foliate scroll in pursuit of flaming pearls between ruyi-head borders, below a wide band of lotus scroll on the base of the neck and a band of pendent, beaded chains on the garlic-head mouth set below a band of pendent leaf tips, the short, inwardly rounded mouth rim painted with detached clouds interrupted by the nianhao in a rectangular reserve, base unglazed
21½in. (54.6cm.) high

拍品专文

A similar vase decorated with the same design in wucai enamels in the Baur Collection is illustrated by John Ayers, Catalogue, vol. II, Geneva, 1969, pl. A203. A blue and white vase of the same shape, but with different decoration, in the Idemitsu Museum is illustrated in the 15th Anniversary Catalogue, Tokyo, 1981, p. 202, no. 844 and a wucai version of this latter design is illustrated by d'Argencé, Chinese Ceramics in the Avery Brundage Collection, San Francisco, 1967, pl. LXII (C)