Lot Essay
A pair of bowls of this type, also with Wanli marks, is illustrated in Two Thousand Years of Chinese Ceramics, Japan, 1992, p. 96, no. 95.
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THE PROPERTY OF AN AMERICAN COLLECTOR
AN IRON-RED-DECORATED BLUE AND WHITE BOWL
WANLI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1573-1619)
Details
AN IRON-RED-DECORATED BLUE AND WHITE BOWL
WANLI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1573-1619)
With shallow rounded sides rising from a small circular foot, the exterior painted in iron red with eight five-clawed dragons leaping above a band of underglaze blue wind-tossed waves, with a roundel of a similar dragons on the convex center of the interior, all within blue line borders
5 in. (12.6 cm.) diam.
WANLI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1573-1619)
With shallow rounded sides rising from a small circular foot, the exterior painted in iron red with eight five-clawed dragons leaping above a band of underglaze blue wind-tossed waves, with a roundel of a similar dragons on the convex center of the interior, all within blue line borders
5 in. (12.6 cm.) diam.
Provenance
Bluett & Sons, London.
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