A RARE SMALL MING-STYLE WUCAI 'DUCKS' BOWL
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A RARE SMALL MING-STYLE WUCAI 'DUCKS' BOWL

KANGXI/YONGZHENG PERIOD (1662-1735)

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A RARE SMALL MING-STYLE WUCAI 'DUCKS' BOWL
KANGXI/YONGZHENG PERIOD (1662-1735)
The thickly potted, shallow bowl has rounded sides that rise to a flaring rim. The exterior is finely decorated in delicate shades of yellow, green, iron-red and underglaze-blue with four ducks swimming in a pond divided by lotus sprays and reeds, all above a band of lappets radiating from the foot. An apocryphal Jiajing mark is on the base.
3 7/8 in. (9.8 cm.) high, cloth box, wood stand
Provenance
J.M. Hu Collection.

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The origin of this design can be traced to the Chenghua period, as evidenced by the Chenghua-marked dish decorated with a similar design on the exterior and interior, illustrated by Lu Minghua in Porcelain Wares from the Official Kilns of the Ming, Shanghai, 2007, p. 187, no. 3-126, where a Wanli mark-and-period example is also illustrated, p. 211, no. 4-11.

A wucai bowl decorated with a Ming-style design of foreign figures bearing tributes, with a Wanli mark, but dating to the Kangxi period, is illustrated in Kangxi Porcelain Wares from the Shanghai Museum Collection, Shanghai, 1998, pp. 270-71, no. 177.

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