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PROPERTY OF A LADY PROPERTY OF A LADY
A WUCAI ‘DRAGON-FISH’ DISH AND A GILT TWO BLUE AND WHITE ‘KRAAK’ BOWLS
BLUE-GROUND DISH MING DYNASTY, WANLI PERIOD
17TH / 18TH CENTURY
each bowl with rounded sides rising to a barbed everted
the wucai dish with shallow rounded sides, the interior painted rim, the interior painted with a bird among ora, the sides
with a dragon- sh leaping from ower-strewn waves to grasp with shaped medallions containing owers and auspicious
a ‘ aming pearl,’ surrounded by polychrome ame scrolls, emblems, beast masks along the rim, the exterior decorated
clouds, and three of the babao; the blue-ground dish interior with quatrefoil and oral motifs (2)
gilt-decorated with a central bouquet of owers surrounded by Diameter of each 5⅞ in., 14.9 cm
scattered oral sprigs, a bead-and- ower band at the rim (2)
Diameter of larger 11 in., 27.9 cm PROVENANCE
Purchased in Hong Kong, 1960s - 1970s.
PROVENANCE
Purchased in Hong Kong, 1960s - 1970s. $ 500-700
$ 1,000-1,500 㖶叔㙮ġġġ㉱䒟曺剙單晩⚾㉀㱧䙴ℑẞ
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Ḽ⼑㴟㯜欂漵䲳䚌⍲啵⛘㍷慹剙⋱䲳䚌
60 SOTHEBY’S
