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Lot Essay
While similar Wanli-marked blue and white lobed basins are known, it is very rare to find one with the current pattern in hexafoil form. Only one other example with this combination appears to have been published, which is from the Chang Foundation and illustrated in
Selected Ceramics from Han to Qing Dynasties, Taipei, 1990, pl. 104. Other blue and white examples, all in cinquefoil form, include one similarly painted with a descending and ascending dragon to the centre, sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 7 July 2003, lot 651; and two with a single dragon amid floral scrolls to the centre, one from the Jingguantang Collection, sold at Christie’s New York, 18 September 1997, lot 152, the other sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 11th April 2008, lot 2936. For wucai examples from this group, compare to two hexafoil basins decorated with a dragon and phoenix to the centre, one illustrated in Chinese Ceramics in the Idemitsu Collection, Tokyo, 1987, pl. 753, the second from the Tokyo National Museum, published in Oriental Ceramics, The World’s Great Collections, vol. 11, Tokyo, 1982, col. pl. 77; and a cinquefoil basin with a single dragon from the Jingguantang Collection, sold at Christie’s New York, 20 March 1997, lot 89.
Selected Ceramics from Han to Qing Dynasties, Taipei, 1990, pl. 104. Other blue and white examples, all in cinquefoil form, include one similarly painted with a descending and ascending dragon to the centre, sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 7 July 2003, lot 651; and two with a single dragon amid floral scrolls to the centre, one from the Jingguantang Collection, sold at Christie’s New York, 18 September 1997, lot 152, the other sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 11th April 2008, lot 2936. For wucai examples from this group, compare to two hexafoil basins decorated with a dragon and phoenix to the centre, one illustrated in Chinese Ceramics in the Idemitsu Collection, Tokyo, 1987, pl. 753, the second from the Tokyo National Museum, published in Oriental Ceramics, The World’s Great Collections, vol. 11, Tokyo, 1982, col. pl. 77; and a cinquefoil basin with a single dragon from the Jingguantang Collection, sold at Christie’s New York, 20 March 1997, lot 89.