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A RARE WUCAI ‘BIRD AND FLOWER’ LOBED JAR Compare a blue and white jar of the same lobed shaped
WANLI MARK AND PERIOD and similarly painted with alternating panels of birds and
butterflies and flowering peonies, sold Sotheby’s Hong
each side painted with bird and butterflies around peach Kong, 5th and 6th November 1996, lot 756. Another jar
boughs alternating with flowering peonies, all between a of this unusual lobed form is illustrated in Seventeenth
quatrefoil panel enclosing a floral sprig encircling the foot Century Chinese Porcelain from the Butler Family
and a border of stylised floral roundel at the shoulder, the Collection, Pittsburgh, 1990, cat. no. 1.
neck collared with a band of classic scroll, the base with
a six-character mark within a double circle in underglaze ‡ £ 20,000-30,000
blue HK$ 196,000-293,000 US$ 25,000-37,500
Height 14.5 cm, 5¾ in.
明萬曆 五彩花鳥瑞果紋瓜菱式小罐
《大明萬曆年製》款
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