A PAIR OF WUCAI 'LONGEVITY' DISHES, TRANSITIONAL PERIOD, 17TH CENTURY
Each dish is decorated to the centre with a deer next to a monkey crouching below a peach tree, all below a bird and insects in flight. Each rim is decorated with floral cartouches on a geometric band. One dish bears a double circle to the reverse, and the other dish bears an apocryphal Chenghua mark.
7.7/8 in. (19.9 cm.) diam.
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Each dish is decorated to the centre with a deer next to a monkey crouching below a peach tree, all below a bird and insects in flight. Each rim is decorated with floral cartouches on a geometric band. One dish bears a double circle to the reverse, and the other dish bears an apocryphal Chenghua mark.
7.7/8 in. (19.9 cm.) diam.