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A RARE BLUE AND WHITE ‘PHOENIX AND
PROPERTY FROM A NEW YORK PRIVATE COLLECTION Blue and white vases of this type and size from the Wanli
CRANE’ VASE period appear to be particularly rare. There are, however,
AN IRON-RED-GROUND UNDERGLAZE-BLUE a few Jiajing examples recorded. See, for example, one in
‘SCHOLAR’ STEMBOWL MARK AND PERIOD OF WANLI the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in The Complete
MING DYNASTY, WANLI PERIOD well potted with the slightly compressed globular body rising Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum. Blue and
from a splayed foot to a tall cylindrical neck originally flanked White Porcelain with Underglazed Red (I), Hong Kong, 2000,
the rounded sides supported on a tall straight foot and rising by a pair of handles, painted in vibrant cobalt around the pl. 89; and another sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 1st June
to an everted rim, the exterior painted in underglaze blue exterior with alternating pairs of phoenix and cranes flying 2016, lot 3320. Compare a further Jiajing vase of the same
with a continuous scene of scholars engaged in the ‘four amidst cloud wisps, all between further cloud motifs and form but with a dragon design, formerly in the collections
accomplishments’, the gentlemen variously playing weiqi, lappets encircling the foot and ‘trigram’ roundels and bands of the Higuchi and Yamauchi families, sold in these rooms,
admiring a painting, and reading poetry, the interior painted of ruyi heads around the neck, the galleried rim inscribed 23rd March 2011, lot 723.
with a scholar reading a book in a garden setting, all against with a six-character mark in a horizontal line
a vibrant coral-red enameled ground Height 7¼ in., 18.4 cm $ 10,000-15,000
Diameter 5¾ in., 14.3 cm
PROVENANCE
PROVENANCE 明萬曆 青花雲鳳紋雙耳瓶
Acquired in New York in 1956, and thence by descent.
China House of Arts, New York, 1980s. The present vase belongs to a group of small blue and 《大明萬曆年製》款
149 white vases which derived from larger Yuan and early Ming
$ 10,000-15,000 來源：
dynasty prototypes. For an example of a larger vase of 1956年得於紐約，此後家族傳承
related form made during the late Yuan dynasty, see Jessica
明萬曆 礬紅地青花文會圖高足盌 Harrison-Hall, Ming Ceramics in the British Museum, London,
2001, pl. 1:42.
來源：
China House of Arts，紐約，1980年代

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PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
A BLUE AND WHITE ‘FLOWER BASKET’ DISH
MARK AND PERIOD OF WANLI
the center painted in shades of dark blue with an
arrangement of varying blooms in an arched-handled basket,
the cavetto with fans, leaves, pomegranate and waterweed
all between double-line borders, the exterior with flowering
boughs and insects, the base with a six-character mark in
underglaze blue within a double circle
Diameter 6⅝ in., 16.7 cm
PROVENANCE
Sotheby’s New York, 29th November 1988, lot 182.

$ 4,000-6,000
明萬曆 青花花籃紋盤
《大明萬曆年製》款
150 來源：
紐約蘇富比1988年11月29日，編號182

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