Author: --
Size: D19cm
Signed and dated: Wanli period,(1563-1626 AD)
Estimate:
Final Price: RMB 620,000
Wanli Six-Character Mark
PROVENANCE
• Formerly in the private collection of a noble English family
• Formerly in a Danish private collection,acquired in the 1950’s
• The S Marchant & Son,no.M4599
An imperial blue and white moulded lotus dish modelled as an open lotus flower on a straight foot,painted in the centre with a double ruyi-head medallion enclosing two Sanskrit characters beneath two ranks of sixteen scalloped petals,the tips with scrolls and ruyi-head swirls above stylised jewels,the underside with the lower rank of lotus petals projecting tips above a band of interlocked ruyi-heads and beneath eight further Sanskrit characters framed in petals between camellia and lotus flowerheads.