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Auction archive: Lot number 1483

AN IMPORTANT AND EXTREMELY RARE WUCAI 'DUCKS AND LOTUS POND'...

Estimate
US$250,000 - US$350,000
Price realised:
US$146,500
Auction archive: Lot number 1483

AN IMPORTANT AND EXTREMELY RARE WUCAI 'DUCKS AND LOTUS POND'...

Estimate
US$250,000 - US$350,000
Price realised:
US$146,500
Beschreibung:

AN IMPORTANT AND EXTREMELY RARE WUCAI 'DUCKS AND LOTUS POND' FISH BOWL
WANLI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE IN A LINE WITHIN A DOUBLE-RECTANGLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1573-1619)
AN IMPORTANT AND EXTREMELY RARE WUCAI 'DUCKS AND LOTUS POND' FISH BOWL WANLI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE IN A LINE WITHIN A DOUBLE-RECTANGLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1573-1619) The massive sturdily potted vessel with flared, slightly rounded sides painted in tones of cobalt and highlighted in bold tones of iron-red, green and yellow and brown glaze to depict an aquatic scene with two pairs of mandarin ducks among lotus leaves, blooms and waterweeds below an alternating underglaze blue and iron-red scroll border beneath a band of scrolling vine adorning the flattened rim, the reign mark written in a line below the rim 18 5/8 in. (47.4 cm.) diam.

Auction archive: Lot number 1483
Auction:
Datum:
15 Sep 2011
Auction house:
Christie's
15 September 2011, New York, Rockefeller Center
Beschreibung:

AN IMPORTANT AND EXTREMELY RARE WUCAI 'DUCKS AND LOTUS POND' FISH BOWL
WANLI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE IN A LINE WITHIN A DOUBLE-RECTANGLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1573-1619)
AN IMPORTANT AND EXTREMELY RARE WUCAI 'DUCKS AND LOTUS POND' FISH BOWL WANLI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE IN A LINE WITHIN A DOUBLE-RECTANGLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1573-1619) The massive sturdily potted vessel with flared, slightly rounded sides painted in tones of cobalt and highlighted in bold tones of iron-red, green and yellow and brown glaze to depict an aquatic scene with two pairs of mandarin ducks among lotus leaves, blooms and waterweeds below an alternating underglaze blue and iron-red scroll border beneath a band of scrolling vine adorning the flattened rim, the reign mark written in a line below the rim 18 5/8 in. (47.4 cm.) diam.

Auction archive: Lot number 1483
Auction:
Datum:
15 Sep 2011
Auction house:
Christie's
15 September 2011, New York, Rockefeller Center
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