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

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A RARE LARGE WUCAI BOX AND COVER
WANLI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1573-1619)
The cover is decorated below the lotus bud finial with a band of radiating iron-red petal lappets and a continuous scene of scholars and attendants above a band of birds and butterflies amidst fruiting and flowering branches extending from either side of blue rocks on the sides. The sides of the bowl are decorated with three five-clawed dragons striding in pursuit of flaming pearls above a band of blossoms floating on waves on the foot and below a composite floral meander at the rim.
10 ¼ in. (26 cm.) diam., Japanese double wood boxes

Provenance

Private collection, Osaka, Japan, acquired in the early 20th century.

Exhibited

Marchant & Son, Ming Porcelain, London, November 2009, no. 43.

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Lot Essay

A wucai box of similar form with dragon and phoenix decoration in the Tokyo National Museum is illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, vol. I, Tokyo National Museum, 1982, no. 127. Another wucai circular dragon box and cover is illustrated by Klaus-Peter Arnold in Chinesisches Porzellan der Ming Dynastie, 14. bis 17. Jahrhundert, Dresden, 1987, no. 82, col. pl.

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