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A SMALL IRON-RED AND UNDERGLAZE-BLUE ‘NINE A BLUE AND WHITE BOTTLE VASE
DRAGON’ DISH Wanli
Wanli six-character mark and of the period The pear-shaped vessel with a globular body and tall tapering neck,
The shallow, wide vessel raised on a very low foot rim, the exterior boldly painted with alternating registers of floral spray and bejewelled
enamelled with eight five-clawed dragons writhing above a wave swag motifs with coins and tassels, between bands of wan diaper
border at the very low foot rim, the interior with another dragon atop and ruyi head borders. 28.5cm (11 1/4in) high
a slightly convex well. 12.5cm (4 7/8in) diam.
£1,500 - 2,000
£1,500 - 2,000 HK$16,000 - 21,000
HK$16,000 - 21,000 CNY13,000 - 18,000
CNY13,000 - 18,000
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Provenance: Collected in the 1970s, by repute A BLUE AND WHITE BRACKET-RIMMED BOWL
Wanli
Compare with a similar pair of dragon bowls, Wanli six-character The lobed body decorated to the exterior with flower sprays below
marks and of the period, sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 3 October a border of heavenly horses, the interior with a central landscape
2017, lot 3733. Also, see a similar pair exhibited in Chugoku meito roundel below flamiform floral roundels and a river landscape border.
ten: Chugoku toji 2000-nen no seika [Exhibition of Chinese pottery: 21cm (8.1/4in) diam.
two thousand years of Chinese ceramics], Tokyo, 1992, cat. no. 95.
£1,500 - 2,000
HK$16,000 - 21,000
CNY13,000 - 18,000

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