Important Chinese Art including Imperial Jades from the De An Tang Collection
Important Chinese Art including Imperial Jades from the De An Tang Collection
Property of a Gentleman 士紳珍藏
A rare wucai 'immortals' bowl, Mark and period of Wanli | 明萬曆 五彩仙人圖盌 《大明萬曆年製》款
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Property of a Gentleman
A rare wucai 'immortals' bowl
Mark and period of Wanli
士紳珍藏
明萬曆 五彩仙人圖盌
《大明萬曆年製》款
boldly decorated around the exterior in vivid wucai enamels with a continuous landscape scene of five immortals and attendants, two riding a phoenix and a stork, while three above swirling waves, accompanied by a deer carrying a vase on its back, all between a lingzhi scroll below the rim and a classic scroll band encircling the foot, the interior centred with a dragon roundel below a border of floral sprigs, the base inscribed with a six-character mark within a double circle
15.2 cm
The Toguri Collection.
Sotheby's London, 9th June 2004, lot 36.
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倫敦蘇富比2004年6月9日，編號36
A related Wanli polychrome bowl decorated with immortals below a border of lingzhi fungus, in the Percival David Foundation, London, is included in the Illustrated Catalogue of Ming Polychrome Wares, London, 1978, cat. no. 86; another from the Riesco Collection is illustrated in Soame Jenyns, Ming Pottery and Porcelain, London, 1953, pl. 98c.
Compare also two bowls of related form in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in Minji meihin zuroku, vol. III, Tokyo, 1978, pl. 106, and in the Porcelains of the National Palace Museum: Enamelled Ware of the Ming Dynasty, vol. 3, Hong Kong, 1966, pl. 14. Two further bowls are published in John Ayers, Chinese Ceramics in the Baur Collection, vol. 1, Geneva, 1999, pl. 98; and one included in Mayuyama: Seventy Years, vol.1, Tokyo, 1976, pl. 937.