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983 (two views)

                       (another view with box)
 ⱷ983
 A WUCAI `SCHOLARS AND ATTENDANTS' BOWL
 WANLI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE
 WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1573-  ⱷ985
 1619)    A RARE WUCAI ZUN-FORM `DRAGON’ VASE
 The exterior of the bowl is decorated with a continuous scene   WANLI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE
 of four scholars and attendants in a landscape, between a floral   WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1573-1619)
 scroll at the rim and a cloud border on the foot. The interior is   The trumpet-shaped neck and the bulbous midsection are painted
 decorated with a writhing, front-faced dragon within double   with two dragons above waves and amidst floral scroll, both registers
 circles, below auspicious emblems encircling the rim.  accentuated with flanges. The flaring, ridged foot is decorated with
 6Ω in. (16.4 cm.) diam., Japanese wood box  further dragons between lappet and cloud borders, all rendered in
          iron-red, green, turquoise, yellow and black.
 $20,000-30,000  12¿ in. (30.8 cm.) high, Japanese lacquered wood box

 PROVENANCE:  $30,000-50,000
 Japanese private collection, Osaka, 1950-60s.
          PROVENANCE:
          Japanese private collection, Osaka.
 明萬曆 五彩高士圖盌 雙圈六字楷書款
 來源:      明萬曆 五彩龍紋尊 雙圈六字楷書款
 日本私人珍藏, 大阪, 1950-1960年代  來源:
          日本私人珍藏, 大阪
 984
 A RARE WUCAI SQUARE CENSER AND COVER
 17TH CENTURY
 The square censer is decorated on each side with an immortal
 riding on top of vaporous clouds and raised on an integral
 openwork base with floral scroll and quatrefoil perforations. The
 cover is similarly decorated and is surmounted by a Buddhist lion
 seated with its left paw resting on a beribboned brocade ball.
 8º in. (21 cm.) high
 $10,000-15,000               (mark)

 A nearly identical wucai square censer dating to the 17 century
 th
 was sold at Christie’s New York, 22-23 March 2018, lot 731.

 984
 十七世紀 五彩仙人圖獅形蓋方爐







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