A LARGE WUCAI VASE

WANLI PERIOD

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A LARGE WUCAI VASE
WANLI PERIOD
The garlic mouth molded as rows of overlapping petals above a slender neck painted with basketweave and a pear-shaped body decorated with a formal arrangement of colorful lotus scroll
15 7/8 in. (40.3 cm.) high

Lot Essay

Similar vases from the collection of the Idemitsu Museum was exhibited in The Pursuit of the Dragon, Seattle Art Museum, 1988, Catalogue no. 72, another one in Mayuyama, Seventy Years, vol. I, Tokyo, 1976, p. 304, no. 909.

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