A VERY LARGE BLUE AND WHITE LOBED TEMPLE VASE, WANLI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE IN A LINE AT THE RIM AND OF THE PERIOD (1573-1619)

A VERY LARGE BLUE AND WHITE LOBED TEMPLE VASE
WANLI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE IN A LINE AT THE RIM AND OF THE PERIOD (1573-1619)
The tall flared neck is decorated with vertical panels of lingzhi and panels of branches of flowers, butterflies and insects, divided by a raised bands of dragons chasing flaming pearls. The slightly splayed foot and bulbous mid-section are decorated with vertical panels of animals in landscape settings above decorative borders.
33 ½ in. (85 cm.) high

Provenance

Myrna Myers, Paris, 1985.
The Lenora and Walter F. Brown Collection, San Antonio, Texas.

PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF LENORA AND WALTER F. BROWN