A LATE MING WUCAI JAR

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A LATE MING WUCAI JAR
WANLI SIX-CHARACTER MARK WITHIN DOUBLE-CIRCLES AND OF THE PERIOD (1573-1619)

Well painted and enamelled with four quatrefoil medallions enclosing birds in flight amidst branches bearing peonies, pomegranates and peaches, interspersed among eight detached fruit and flower sprays, above upright lappets, the slanting shoulder with four smaller lobed cartouches alternating scenes of birds on peony and pomegranate boughs, all against a cell-pattern ground
5 1/2 in. (14 cm.) high, box

拍品專文

Previously sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 2 May 2000, lot 628.

A similar jar is illustrated in Sekai Toji Zenshu, vol. 14, Tokyo, 1976, pl. 208; one is illustrated by Adrian Joseph, Ming Porcelains. Their Origins and Development, London, 1971, pl. 83; one with a slightly different colour scheme is illustrated by A. du Boulay, Christie's Pictorial History of Chinese Ceramics, London, 1984, p. 167, no. 5; and another with the outlines in green enamel, was sold in these Rooms, The Jingguantang Collection, 3 November 1996, lot 575.