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Lot 227

A blue and white lobed pear-shaped wall vase
Wanli

13 May 2010, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

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A blue and white lobed pear-shaped wall vase

Wanli
Painted on the body with two scholars engaged in conversation beneath a gnarled pine tree with a riverscape in the background, the splayed foot and flared neck painted with shaped panels enclosing blossoming blooms, on a diaper ground with ruyi heads at the foot and against a ground of scrolling lotus trellises at the neck, the reverse with Chenghua six-character mark.
32cm (12½in) high.

Footnotes

Provenance: S. Marchant & Son, London, 1980
An English private collection

Exhibited and Illustrated: S.Marchant & Son, Exhibition of Chinese Blue and White - Wan Li to K'ang hsi, London, 1980, Catalogue no.6.

Exhibited: A Research Display of 16th Century Chinese Ceramics from the Oriental Ceramic Society and the British Museum, The British Museum, London, 17 October - 30 November 1994, Exhibition no.87.

Compare a Wanli mark and period wucai wall vase in the Baur Collection, illustrated by J. Ayers, Chinese Ceramics in the Baur Collection, Vol.I, Geneva, 1999, fig.101, where it is noted that the provincial gazeteer, Jiangxi sheng Dazhi, records that 400 blue and white wall vases were produced for the court in 1592, see ibid, p.162.

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