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AN IRON-RED-GROUND BLUE AND
WHITE ‘GARLIC MOUTH’ VASE

WANLI PERIOD (1573-1619)

The bulbous body and tall neck are decorated with
birds in fight amidst pine trees, peony and bamboo,
interrupted by a border of shaped panels of lotus and
peach reserved on a diaper ground on the shoulder.
The garlic-form mouth is molded in the form of rows
of overlapping lotus petals.
17Ω in. (44.2 cm.) high
$8,000-12,000

PROVENANCE

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York,
accessioned in 1919 (Rogers Fund).
Wanli vases of similar shape, with this distinctive
garlic-from mouth molded as rows of overlapping
lotus petals, but decorated in the wucai palette with
formalized lotus scroll, include the example from
the Idemitsu Museum illustrated in The Pursuit of
the Dragon, Seattle Art Museum, 1988, no. 72; the
example illustrated in Mayuyama, Seventy Years, vol.
I, Tokyo, 1976, p. 304, no. 909; and the vase from
the Benjamin F. Edwards III Collection, sold at
Christie’s New York, 20 January 2004, lot 27.
明萬曆 珊瑚紅地青花加彩花鳥紋蒜頭瓶
來源
紐約大都會藝術博物館，入藏於1919年 (Rogers 基金)。

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