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A DEHUA FIGURE OF GUANYIN A SMALL WUCAI 'DRAGON' CUP 明萬曆ǎ̩彩龍紋小盃ǎ雙१Ս字楷書款
17TH-18TH CENTURY WANLI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE
CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1573-1620) Ϝ源
The Goddess of Mercy is shown seated with the right 秦峰⁸珍藏
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hand set on the raised right knee, and the left arm The shallow cup with slightly everted lip is decorated on the exterior with three
resting on a three-legged support with hand gently front-facing five-clawed dragons amidst flaming pearls in underglaze blue, iron-
grasping a ruyi scepter. The figure is swathed in a red enamel, and yellow and green glazes. The interior is decorated with a phoenix
long, flowing robe which falls open at the chest to in underglaze blue within double circles.
reveal a ruyi-shaped necklace. The hair is held in a 3¡ in. (8.2 cm.) diam., jichimu box
high chignon by a ruyi-shaped hairpin. The reverse
$15,000-18,000
is impressed with a four-character seal reading Lin
Xizong yin (seal of Lin Xizong), and the base is carved
with two characters, Ru Hao, possibly a name. PROVENANCE:
9 in. (22.9 cm.) high, Japanese wood box Mineo Hata Collection, Kobe, Japan.
$15,000-18,000 The combination of polychrome enamel decoration on the exterior and
underglaze-blue decoration on the interior is rare. A bowl with a phoenix
similarly rendered in underglaze blue on the interior, in the collection of the
PROVENANCE:
Palace Museum, Beijing, is illustrated in Imperial Porcelains from the Reign of
Mineo Hata Collection, Kobe, Japan.
Jiajing, Longqing and Wanli of the Ming Dynasty, vol. II, Beijing, 2018, p. 692, no.
408. However, instead of three front-facing dragons, the exterior of the Beijing
Palace bowl is decorated with four striding dragons in pursuit of flaming pearls.
十ˑ 十Ջˠ紀ǎ德٪白釉觀音ঙ像 (interior)
印款 林希宗印

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神戶
日本

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64 M I N E O H A T A A N I N S T I N C T I V E E Y E 靈心慧目ě秦峰⁸中४藝術集珍 65