WANLI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1573-1619)

Details

A RARE BLUE AND WHITE 'LOTUS' DOUBLE-GOURD VASE
WANLI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1573-1619)
9 1⁄8 in. (23 cm.) high, Japanese wood box

Provenance

Sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 27 May 2008, lot 1852

Exhibited

University Museum and Art Gallery: The University of Hong Kong, The Fame of Flame: Imperial Wares of the Jiajing and Wanli Periods, 14 October 2009-28 February 2010, p. 146-147, no. 44

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Lot Essay

It is recorded in the Jiangxi Gazetteer: Pottery Records that “blue and white double-gourd form vases” were produced in the twenty-sixth year of the Jiajing reign (1547), which corresponds to the form and decoration of the present lot.

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