WANLI

Details

A rare blue ground baluster jar and cover
WANLI
The well-potted sides decorated in biscuit with fish among flaming pearls, reserved on midnight blue ground, the interior glazed white, the domed cover surmounted by knop finial
19.5 cm. high

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Lot Essay

A similar type ewer and cover from the Eumorfopoulos Collection, is illustrated by Jessica Harrison Hall, Ming Ceramics in the British Museum, no. 11:182; and illustrated by Jan Wirgin, Song - Ming, Treasures of the Holger Lauritzon Collection, Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities in Stockholm, catalogue, no. 96.

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