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

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A RARE WUCAI 'DRAGON' DISH
WANLI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1573-1619)
The dish has shallow rounded sides that rise to an everted rim and is decorated in the interior with a dragon supporting a basket of peaches flanked by two dragons holding wan emblems below two further dragons mutually holding a lotus blossom above a flame-encircled shou medallion. All are within a bracket-lobed reserve below four cartouches of flying phoenixes reserved on an underglaze blue wan-diaper ground, and the exterior is painted in underglaze blue with eight flower sprays.
12½ in. (31.8 cm.) diam., box

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T.T. Tsui Collection, Hong Kong.

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A related Wanli-marked dish decorated with an ascending dragon supporting a similar basin and surrounded by four further dragons within a bracket-lobed panel in the interior is included in the Illustrated Catalogue of Tokyo National Museum, Chinese Ceramics II, 1990, no. 344.