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A wucai 'Immortal' dish Wanli six-character mark and of the period
16 May 2019, 10:30 BST
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A wucai 'Immortal' dish
Wanli six-character mark and of the period
With gently everted rim, decorated on the interior with an immortal standing in a garden, holding a ruyi sceptre and accompanied by two acolytes carrying respectively a coral vase and a bottle issuing vaporous air, all amidst flowering shrubs and wispy clouds and enclosed by a border of leafy scrolls interspersed with double gourds, the reverse with the Eight Buddhist Emblems growing from blossoming lotus, the base inscribed with a six-character mark within double-circles. 19.2cm (7 1/2in) diam.
With gently everted rim, decorated on the interior with an immortal standing in a garden, holding a ruyi sceptre and accompanied by two acolytes carrying respectively a coral vase and a bottle issuing vaporous air, all amidst flowering shrubs and wispy clouds and enclosed by a border of leafy scrolls interspersed with double gourds, the reverse with the Eight Buddhist Emblems growing from blossoming lotus, the base inscribed with a six-character mark within double-circles. 19.2cm (7 1/2in) diam.
Footnotes
明萬曆 五彩仙人圖盤
青花「大明萬曆年製」楷書款
For related wucai dishes, Wanli, decorated with figures in landscapes, see M.K.Hearn, Splendors of Imperial China: Treasures from the National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1996, pl.78, p.106; and J.Ho Yi Hsing, The Fame of Flame: Imperial Wares of the Jiajing and Wanli periods, Hong Kong, 2009, pp.288–289, no.115, and pp.292-293, no.117.
























