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A RARE LARGE WUCAI 'DRAGON AND PHOENIX' DISH
Lot 1567 PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF LENORA AND WALTER F. BROWN

A RARE LARGE WUCAI 'DRAGON AND PHOENIX' DISH

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

Closed25 September 2020

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A RARE LARGE WUCAI 'DRAGON AND PHOENIX' DISH
WANLI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1573-1619)
The dish is decorated in the center with a dragon and phoenix reserved on a ground of leafy floral scroll. The cavetto is similarly decorated with two pairs of dragons and phoenixes and the reverse is decorated with a broad band of floral scroll.
15 ¼ in. (38.7 cm.) diam., cloth box

Eskenazi Ltd., London, January 1986, no. 9526.
The Lenora and Walter F. Brown Collection, San Antonio, Texas.

Specialist note


An almost identical Wanli dish of comparable size in the Palace Museum, Beijing, is illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum - 38 - Porcelains in Polychrome and Contrasting Colours, Hong Kong, 1999, no. 50. Another nearly identical Wanli dish is illustrated in Illustrated Catalogues of Tokyo National Museum: Chinese Ceramics, Tokyo, 1965, p. 130, no. 536. A smaller (9 3/8 in. diam.) Wanli wucai 'dragon and phoenix’ dish from the Art Institute of Chicago was sold at Christie’s New York, 12 September, 2019 lot 709.