WANLI 1573 – 1619 Chinese Export Porcelain
An Early Wanli Blue and White Porcelain Bowl c.1573-1580. Decorated with a Continuous Landscape with Land and Islands, Buildings Including Pagodas, and Small Craft on the Water. The Well Similarly Decorated with a Weeping Willow Next to a Low Building. The Border to the Interior is of Egrets Wading Among Lotus. The Base with an Apocryphal Six Character Xuande Mark (Ming Dynasty 1426-1435).
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- Condition
- Damaged, there is a long fine crack from the rim towards the base c.75 mm. This has been cleaned and sealed.
- Size
- Height : 10 cm (4 inches) Diameter : 14.5 cm (5 3/4 inches)
- Provenance
- N/A
- Stock number
- 23879
- References
- For a similar Early Wanli bowl with a none-Imperial six character Wanli mark and of the period see : Ming Blue and White Porcelain, The Drs.A.M. Sengers Collection (S.Marchant & Son, November 2001) page 19, plate 13. A Wanli Ming dish with a similar design and egret border with an English silver-gilt mount dated to c.1585 is illustrated in : Mounted Oriental Porcelain (Sir Francis Watson, International Exhibitions Foundation 1986. ISBN 0-88397-0880) page 36, plate 4. For a very similar Wanli blue and white porcelain bowl with a four character Wanli mark see : Chinese Blue and White Ceramics (S.T. Yeo & Jean Martin, South East Asian Ceramic Society, 1978) page 164, plate 68. For a slightly earlier bowl, Jiaqing mark and period c.1560-1566 : Ming Blue and White Porcelain, The Drs.A.M. Sengers Collection (S.Marchant & Son, November 2001) page 4, plate 2.
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