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9/2/2020 Important Chinese Art | Sotheby's

Impo rtant Chinese Art
New York |23 Sep 2020 | 09:00 AM EDT

Lot 521

A RARE BLUE AND WHITE 'PH OENIX AND CRANE' VASE, WANLI MARK AND PE RIOD
Estimate: 20,000 - 30,000 USD

A RARE BLUE AND WHITE 'PHOENIX AND CRANE' VASE
WANLI MARK AND PERIOD
明萬曆 青花雲鳳紋雙耳瓶 《大明萬曆年製》款

well potted with the slightly compressed globular body rising from a splayed foot to a tall cylindrical neck flanked by a pair of
handles, painted in vibrant cobalt blue around the exterior with alternating pairs of phoenix and cranes flying amid cloud wisps,
all between further cloud motifs and lappets encircling the foot and flaming trigrams and bands of ruyi heads around the neck, the
galleried rim inscribed with a six-character mark in a horizontal line

Height 7¼ in., 18.4 cm

Provenance
Acquired in New York in 1956, and thence by descent.

來源
1956年得於紐約，此後家族傳承

Catalogue Note
The present vase belongs to a group of small blue and white vases which derived from larger prototypes dated to the Yuan and
early Ming dynasty. For an example of a larger vase of related form made during the late Yuan dynasty, see Jessica Harrison-
Hall, Ming Ceramics in the British Museum, London, 2001, pl. 1:42.

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