WANLI

Details

A late Ming blue and white wine-pot and cover
Wanli
The moulded globular sides painted with six vertical panels enclosing buddhistic symbols hanging from ribbons or flowering peony, below a keyfret-pattern ground enriched with cartouches of Symbols, repeated to the cover with knop finial, the body applied with a nearly square handle and S-shaped spout, two small cracks and minute chips
20.3 cm. high

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Lot Essay

For similar examples see M. Rinaldi, Kraak Porcelain, London, 1989, p.182-184, pl.235-237. See also C.J.A. Jörg, Chinese Ceramics in the Collection of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, p.68-69, pl.56, where a similar wine-pot was salvaged from the wreck of the 'Witte Leeuw' is illustrated.

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