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The Longqing emperor (r. 1567-1572);
                                               image courtesy of the National Palace Museum, Taipei

Property from a distinguished European
private collection
顯赫歐洲私人收藏藏品
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An important and extremely rare wucai fish bowl
Longqing six-character mark and of the period
The sturdily potted sides gently rounded and painted in bright
underglaze blue and skilfully enamelled in soft shades of green, ochre
and iron-red with a continuous scene of lotus flowers, pods and
leaves and clumps of rushes growing from the rippling waters of a
lake, providing a home for birds variously swimming and flying above,
including pairs of geese and mandarin ducks, and three crested
egrets standing on a grassy promontory, all below a continuous
foliate meander issuing lingzhi fungus at the rim and above blue
lappets at the foot, the six-character mark painted in underglaze blue
on the inside of the rim, wood stand.
57.2cm (22½in) diam. (2).
£500,000 - 800,000
HK$6,200,000 - 10,000,000		CNY4,900,000 - 7,900,000
明隆慶 五彩蓮池水禽紋缸 青花「大明隆慶年造」楷書款
Provenance: a distinguished European private collection
來源:顯赫歐洲私人收藏

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