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A BLUE AND WHITE BARBED-RIM
‘PHEASANT AND PEONY’ BASIN
FOR THE JAPANESE MARKET
Wanli
The deep rounded sides rising from a short tapering
foot to an everted flaring rim, brightly painted in the
well with two pheasants beside blooming peonies,
the cavetto with a band of scrolling lotus, the foliate
rim with shaped panels containing white horses and
rabbits interspersed with various diaper-patterns,
the exterior painted with sparse branches of prunus,
Japanese wood box.
38.1cm (15in) wide. (2).

£10,000 - 15,000
CNY88,000 - 130,000

明萬曆 青花牡丹雛雞圖棱口折沿大盤

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A BLUE AND WHITE ‘QILIN’ DISH
Wanli
Painted in the centre in vivid tones with two mythical
qilin beside towering peony and camellia blossoms,
surrounded by a band of butterflies, fruit and
branches on the cavetto, the rim decorated with
onion-domed buildings interspersed with flowers,
figures and Buddhist lions suspended from chains,
Japanese wood box.
36.7cm (14 1/2in) diam. (2).

£8,000 - 10,000
CNY70,000 - 88,000
明萬曆 青花麒麟圖大盤

Compare with a similar blue and white dish with the
same motif, Wanli, in the Peabody Essex Museum,
Salem, Massachusetts, illustrated by R.Diaz, Chinese
Armorial Porcelain for Spain, London, 2010, p.85.
The same motif on a jar and a dish but with the
double-headed eagle of the Order of St Augustine is
also illustrated in Ibid,.pp.80-82. Diaz notes that many
interpretations exist about the so-called architectural
composition including being read as bottles, ruins,
and the towers of a monastery-fortress similar to
ones found in Mexican colonial architecture.
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