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PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED NEW YORK COLLECTION
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A RARE UNDERGLAZE-BLUE-DECORATED YELLOW-GLAZED palaces. See, also, a blue and white Wanli mark-and-period example,
'PEONY SCROLL' DISH decorated with a virtually identical peony pattern, in the Capital Museum
JIAJING SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A China in Beijing, illustrated by Ma Guixi in Beauty of Ceramics: Blue & White
DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1522-1566) Porcelain, p.99, no. 85. A yellow-ground blue and white-decorated dish with a
similar floral design, Wanli mark-and-period, was sold at Christie’s New York,
The shallow dish is decorated on the interior with four peony blossoms borne
19 September 2006, lot 244.
on two leafy, scrolling stems within a double circle, and on the exterior with
1109 (marks) further peony scroll, all on a rich egg-yolk yellow ground.
The choice of botanical motifs on these dishes was not random. The elegant
7 in. (17.8 cm.) diam. meandering peonies motif decorating the center is known as Fugui wandai
(May wealth and rank extend for ten thousand generations). According to T.
$30,000-40,000 T. Bartholomew in Hidden Meanings in Chinese Art, Asian Art Museum of
San Francisco, 2006, p. 155, meandering vines represent continuity and are
PROVENANCE:
a pun for “ten thousand” (wan), as in “ten thousand ceaseless generations”
Private collection, Asia, acquired prior to 1949.
(wandai). The combination of the meandering vine with peonies, which
Christie’s New York, 17 March 2017, lot 1181.
symbolize wealth because of the numerous petals, expresses the wish for
prosperity.
Yellow-ground blue and white wares first appeared in the early Ming period,
and became increasingly popular during the 15th and 16th centuries. Floral
顯㈥紐☼私́珍藏
motifs were particularly popular designs for this color combination. However,
the present dish, with its elegant meandering peony decoration on a yellow 明嘉靖ǎ黃ঃ青花➁枝Ḱ丹紋盤ǎ雙१Ս字楷書款
ground, appears to be a rare example of its type. A blue and white dish of
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Jiajing period, is in the Nanjing Museum, and illustrated in Ming: The Golden ̯洲私́珍藏
年͠עՆ藏
Empire, Edinburgh, 2014, p.29, no. 33. It is noted that the Nanjing dish was
1109 PROPERTY FROM THE USC PACIFIC ASIA MUSEUM, SOLD TO BENEFIT ACQUISITIONS 紐☼ωૈ得
年 月 日
拍品編號
AND COLLECTIONS CARE a product of the imperial factory and intended for daily use in the imperial
TWO SMALL BLUE AND WHITE CUPS
JIAJING SIX-CHARACTER MARKS IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN 1110
SINGLE CIRCLES AND OF THE PERIOD (1522-1566) A BLUE AND WHITE 'WATER POT'
Each cup has shallow rounded sides and is decorated on the exterior with JIAJING SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A
three galloping horses between flames or clouds and ribbon-tied lozenges. DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1522-1566)
The domed center of each interior is decorated with a rock rising from waves Fashioned from the lower body of a double-gourd vase, the globular vessel is
within double circles. decorated with cranes amidst clouds beneath the bagua (Eight Trigrams).
2æ and 2¡ in. (7 and 6 cm.) diam., Japanese wood box (2) 3¿ in. (8 cm.) high, cloth box (mark)
$4,000-6,000 $3,000-5,000
PROVENANCE:
明嘉靖 青花海獸紋盃兩件 單圈六字楷書款 Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Snukal Collection, before 1998.
The USC Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, California, accessioned in 1998, no.
1998.67.97.

南加州大學亞太博物館珍藏, 拍賣收益將用於藏品購藏及維護
明嘉靖 青花八卦鶴紋水丞(改製自葫蘆瓶) 雙圈六字楷書款
來源:
Robert M. Snukal伉儷珍藏, 1998年以前
加州帕莎甸娜南加州大學亞太博物館, 1998年入藏, 館藏編號1998.67.97

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