UNDERGLAZE-BLUE WANLI SIX-CHARACTER MARK WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1573-1619)

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A MING DOUCAI BOWL
Underglaze-blue Wanli six-character mark within a double circle and of the period (1573-1619)
With deep rounded sides rising from a high straight foot to a slightly flaring rim, the interior painted and enamelled with a peach spray in the medallion below a band of florettes around the rim, the exterior with fruit and floral roundels, small section of rim polished
6½ in. (16.5 cm.) diam.

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Lot Essay

A similar example is in the National Palace Museum, Taiwan, illustrated in the Enamelled Ware of the Ming Dynasty, Book III, pl. 13, and aother one illustrated in Murayama, Seventy Years, vol. I, no. 940
Compare also the Chenghua Example illustrated in the Enamelled Ware of the Ming Dynasty, Book I, pl. 5

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