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CIRCA 1660
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A TRANSITIONAL WUCAI BEAKER VASE
CIRCA 1660
Painted and enamelled with a group of men scrubbing and washing a large wrinkly elephant as others look on, the lower portion with sacred fungus and branches of flowering peony, chrysanthemum and lotus, the mid-section later incised with a four-character vertical Tibetan-style inscription to one side, an incised lotus growing from a rock to the opposite
20 1/8 in. (51 cm.) high
CIRCA 1660
Painted and enamelled with a group of men scrubbing and washing a large wrinkly elephant as others look on, the lower portion with sacred fungus and branches of flowering peony, chrysanthemum and lotus, the mid-section later incised with a four-character vertical Tibetan-style inscription to one side, an incised lotus growing from a rock to the opposite
20 1/8 in. (51 cm.) high
Literature
Howard, The Choice of the Private Trader, p. 234, pl. 276