Lot Essay
Cf. a larger Wanli dish with boys at play surrounded by four dragons in the well from the Clark and Palmer Collections, illustrated by Garner, Oriental Blue and White, pl. 53B
THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
A LATE MING BLUE AND WHITE SAUCER-DISH
Details
A LATE MING BLUE AND WHITE SAUCER-DISH
ENCIRCLED WANLI SIX-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD
Painted in violet-blue tones with a central roundel depicting six children playing 'blind man's buff' on a fenced terrace, below two pairs of dragons chasing flaming pearls in the well, the exterior with six fruiting branches--7in. (17.6cm.) diam.
ENCIRCLED WANLI SIX-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD
Painted in violet-blue tones with a central roundel depicting six children playing 'blind man's buff' on a fenced terrace, below two pairs of dragons chasing flaming pearls in the well, the exterior with six fruiting branches--7in. (17.6cm.) diam.