WANLI SIX-CHARACTER MARK WITHIN DOUBLE-CIRCLES AND OF THE PERIOD (1573-1619)

Details

A FINE AND RARE SMALL YELLOW-GROUND BLUE AND WHITE BOWL
WANLI SIX-CHARACTER MARK WITHIN DOUBLE-CIRCLES AND OF THE PERIOD (1573-1619)
The bowl is finely potted with rounded sides rising to a slightly everted rim, painted in rich cobalt-blue with a dragon in the central medallion, surrounded on the well with a pair of phoenix divided by cloud-scrolls, the exterior with a continuous floral scroll, all against a lemon-yellow ground.
3 3/8 in. (8.5 cm.) diam., Japanese wood box

Provenance

A Japanese private collection
Sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 27 October 2003, lot 615

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Lot Essay

Small bowls of such pattern on a yellow ground appear to be very rare. A blue and white example with similar decoration was sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 20 November 1984, lot 331. Another larger example (16 cm.) with wucai decoration is illustrated by J. Ayers, The Baur Collection Catalogue, vol. II, Geneva, 1969, pl. 196.

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