A FINE AND RARE LATE MING WUCAI SMALL BOWL

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A FINE AND RARE LATE MING WUCAI SMALL BOWL
ENCIRCLED WANLI SIX-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

The interior painted with a full-faced winged dragon, the exterior with a robed figure bearing a cash-symbol looking back at a procession behind a caparisoned deer and two attendants in a continuous wooded landscape below a band of six flower-heads (minor chip buffed)
4 3/8 in. (21 cm.) diam., box

Provenance

The Jarras Collection, Part II, sold in these Rooms, 8 October 1990, lot 306.

Sale room notice

Please note that the correct size of this bowl is 11 cm. diam.

Lot Essay

Cf. a similarly decorated Wanli wucai bowl from the Lauritzen Collection, illustrated by Wirgin, B.M.F.E.A., 1965, pl. 25, no. 38. Compare also with a two related bowls both with Daoist Immortals, one in the Meiyintang Collection, illustrated by Krahl, Catalogue, Vol. II, no. 713; and the other in the National Palace Museum, Taibei, illustrated in Good Fortune, Long Life, Health and Peace - A Special Exhibition of Porcelain with Auspicious Designs, no. 37.

(US$8,000-10,000)

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