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3397 明萬曆 五彩穿花龍鳳紋蒜頭瓶 六字楷書橫款

A VERY RARE WUCAI ‘DRAGON AND PHOENIX’ 來源
東京美術俱樂部，1980 年 2 月
GARLIC-MOUTH VASE
展覽
WANLI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE IN A LINE 朝日新聞社，《景德鎮千年展》，東京，2007 年，封面圖版

AND OF THE PERIOD (1573-1620) 著錄
鴻禧美術館，《中國歷代陶瓷選集》，台北，1990 年，256 頁，
The pear-shaped body with a tall cylindrical neck rising to a 圖版 109 號
garlic-bulb shaped mouth, the body decorated with iron-red,
green and yellow enamels to depict an upright dragon and a
descending phoenix contending a flaming pearl, the pair repeated
on the reverse side, all amidst floral sprays, the neck similarly
decorated between a key-fret band on the upper body and pendent
overlapping plantain below the bulbous mouth decorated with
beaded jewels suspending precious objects, the mouth rim bearing
the reign mark written in a horizontal line, supported on a short
ring foot decorated with a band of ruyi heads.
18 º in. (46.6 cm.) high, box

HK$6,500,000-8,000,000 US$850,000-1,000,000

PROVENANCE

Tokyo Bijitsu Club, February 1980

EXHIBITED

Hagi Uragami Museum, One Thousand Years of Jingdezhen, 2007,
illustrated on the front cover

LITERATURE

Selected Chinese Ceramics from Han to Qing Dynasties, Chang
Foundation, Taipei, 1990 p.256, no. 109

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