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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.

(detail of interior) (base)

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