A Pair of Wucai Dishes Ming Dynasty, Tianqi/Chongzhen Period

Estimate

3,000 - 5,000 GBP

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Description

porcelain

each with fluted sides rising from a short foot to a brown-dressed lobed rim, the interior painted in underglaze blue and enamelled in green, yellow, aubergine and iron-red with a hare looking up at a bird in flight amongst a landscape, the bases with apocryphal Chenghua marks

Provenance

Collection of Dr Ip Yee.
Sotheby's Hong Kong, 22nd November 1984, lot 679.

Exhibited

From the Tang to the Qing: Chinese Ceramics from circa 618-1850 A.D. from the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Peter Thompson, Hull University, Hull, 1996, cat. no. 78.