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            A SUPERB AND EXCEPTIONALLY RARE                    明萬曆ǎ鬥彩Ջ吉祥紋盌ǎ雙१Ս字楷書款
            DOUCAI 'BAJIXIANG' BOWL
                                                               Ϝ源
            WANLI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE        日˗尚雅ਕ
 東̺
     年ע後
            WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD           馬錢ṁ
 і敦
     年
            (1573-1620)
                                                               美४私́珍藏
                                                               埃斯卡納齊
 і敦
 編號"
            The deep bowl with slightly everted rim is finely decorated in
                                                               馬錢ṁ
 і敦
            underglaze blue, iron-red enamel, and green and yellow glazes, with
            the bajixiang ('Eight Buddhist Emblems') on the exterior and on the   展覽
                                                               ●德ḓਫ
 ζ蒙ṁ
 明德學院美術館
          年
            interior with a central lingzhi with scrolling branches within a double
            blue line circle.
            6q in. (16.5 cm.) diam., cloth box
            $600,000-800,000

            PROVENANCE:
            Shogado, Tokyo, c. 1990.
            Marchant, London, 1994.
            Private collection, United States.
            Eskenazi, London, no. A-291.
            Marchant, London.
            EXHIBITED:
            Middlebury, Vermont, Middlebury College Museum of Art,
            2006-2015.

































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