WANLI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN A LINE IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1573-1619)

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A LARGE BLUE AND WHITE MEIPING
WANLI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN A LINE IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1573-1619)
Decorated in imitation of Xuande period (1426-1435) prototypes and boldly painted in inky underglaze blue around the sides with a four-clawed dragon trailing flames from its shoulders and grasping a stem of lingzhi in its jaws between petal lappet borders
17¼ in. (43.8 cm.) high

Provenance

Acquired in Hong Kong in 1982.

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Lot Essay

Compare two other similar, but larger, Wanli-marked meiping: one (63.4 cm.) illustrated by Lu Minghua in Mingdai Guanyao Ciqi, Shanghai, 2007, p. 167, fig. 3-97; the other (58.5 cm.) illustrated in Mayuyama, Seventy Years, Tokyo, vol. 1, p. 318, no. 952. These and the present meiping were made in imitation of Xuande period (1426-35) prototypes, such as the one illustrated in Imperial Porcelain of the Yongle and Xuande Periods, Excavated from the Site of the Ming Imperial Factory at Jingdezhen, Hong Kong, 1989, pp. 258-9, no. 88.

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