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Size: L13cm
Signed and dated: Longqing period, Ming dynasty
Estimate:
Final Price: RMB 270,000
Longqing Six-Character Mark
PROVENANCE
· The Si Yue Tang Collection
REFERENCE
· Studies on the Collections of the National Museum of China.Porcelain section, Ming dynasty, Shanghai, 2007, pp. 90
The shallow rounded sides rising from a short tapering foot to an everted rim, painted to the interior with a rectangular medallion enclosing two flying crane in rich cobalt blue reserved on a cloud-filled ground, the rim with a band of stylized ruyi clouds pattern inside a double line, the exterior painted floral pattern on the four sides. The base with an four-character Longqing reign mark in underglaze-blue.