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A RARE BLUE AND WHITE MULTI-SPOUTED 明嘉靖 青花魚藻紋六管花插
‘FISH’ VASE 《大明嘉靖年製》款
MARK AND PERIOD OF JIAJING
來源：
of globular form, resting on a straight foot and set with six
short cylindrical spouts above, vibrantly painted with carp 馬錢特，倫敦，1999年3月31日
swimming amidst lotus blooms, leaves, waterweed, and 展覽：
other aquatic plants, a border of peach and flower sprays 《Two Hundred Years of Chinese Porcelain 1522-1722》
surrounding a stylized radiating lingzhi medallion at the top,
each spout painted with a scrolling floral arabesque, the ，馬錢特，倫敦，1998年，編號9
recessed base with a six-character mark within a double
circle in underglaze blue, wood stand (2)
Diameter 4¼ in., 10.8 cm
PROVENANCE
Marchant, London, 31st March 1999.
EXHIBITED
Two Hundred Years of Chinese Porcelain 1522-1722, S.
Marchant & Son, London, 1998, cat. no. 9.
$ 20,000-30,000

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A MOLDED BLUE AND WHITE ‘LOTUS’ DISH Other Wares, vol. II, Geneva, 1969, pl. A 185; and the British
MARK AND PERIOD OF WANLI Museum, London, illustrated in Jessica Harrison-Hall,
Catalogue of Late Yuan and Ming Ceramics in the British
formed as a flowerhead with two radiating layers of sixteen Museum, London, 2001, pls 11:101 and 11:102.
petals surrounding a lança character at the center, the tips
of the outer petals painted with trefoils and the inner petals $ 30,000-50,000
with ruyi heads, the exterior painted with lança characters
alternating with floral sprays above a tier of molded petals 明萬曆 青花花卉梵文蓮式盤
painted with fine striations and an inner band of painted
stylized leaves, the base with a six-character mark within a 《大明萬歷年製》款
double circle in underglaze blue, wood stand (2)
Diameter 7½ in., 19.1 cm 來源：
馬錢特，倫敦，2000年3月24日
PROVENANCE
Marchant, London, 24th March 2000.
Similar dishes are housed in the Shanghai Museum,
Shanghai, illustrated in Lu Minghua, Shanghai bowuguan
cangpin yanjiu daxi: Mingdai guanyao ciqi [Ming imperial
porcelain], Shanghai, 2007, pl. 3-94; the National Palace
Museum, Taipei, published in Porcelain of the National Palace
Museum: Blue-and-White Ware of The Ming Dynasty, vol.
VI, Hong Kong, 1963, pl. 20; the Baur Collection, included
in John Ayers, The Baur Collection: Ming Porcelains and

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