Refined gathering II—selection of marchant and Japanese collection of ming porcelain

5389 | Chongzhen period,(1628-1648 AD) A RARE WUCAI‘BIRD AND FLORAL’VASE,TONGPING

A RARE WUCAI‘BIRD AND FLORAL’VASE,TONGPING

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Size: H29.2cm

Signed and dated: Chongzhen period,(1628-1648 AD)

Estimate:

Final Price: RMB 220,000

Published
Marchant in exhibition of Ming Porcelain,2009,no. 54,pp,120

PROVENANCE
• Formerly in a French private Collection
• Sold by Marchant,3rd November 2009
• Formerly in the Roy Davids Collection,no,137
• Bonhams London,6th November 2014,lot Lot 46
• The S Marchant & Son,no.M3781

A wucai sleeve vase,rolwagon,painted with a continuous scene of a pair of cockerels eyeing each other amongst insects and butterflies,between branches of herbaceous peony issuing from pierced rockwork beside aster and rockwork,all beneath an iron-red moon with a magic knot,shell and lotus flowerhead on the gently flared neck,the base unglazed.