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A WUCAI ‘IMMORTAL’ DISH For related wucai dishes, Wanli, decorated with figures in
Wanli six-character mark and of the period landscapes, see M.K.Hearn, Splendors of Imperial China: Treasures
With gently everted rim, decorated on the interior with an immortal from the National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1996, pl.78, p.106; and
standing in a garden, holding a ruyi sceptre and accompanied by two J.Ho Yi Hsing, The Fame of Flame: Imperial Wares of the Jiajing and
acolytes carrying respectively a coral vase and a bottle issuing vaporous Wanli periods, Hong Kong, 2009, pp.288–289, no.115, and pp.292-
air, all amidst flowering shrubs and wispy clouds and enclosed by a 293, no.117.
border of leafy scrolls interspersed with double gourds, the reverse with
the Eight Buddhist Emblems growing from blossoming lotus, the base
inscribed with a six-character mark within double-circles.
19.2cm (7 1/2in) diam.

£6,000 - 8,000
CNY53,000 - 70,000

明萬曆 五彩仙人圖盤
青花「大明萬曆年製」楷書款

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