A LARGE CHINESE WUCAI GU TRANSITIONAL C.1640 Painted with enamels and gilt with lavish flowersprays

A LARGE CHINESE WUCAI GU

TRANSITIONAL C.1640

Painted with enamels and gilt with lavish flowersprays, rockwork and a pheasant in flight between geometric bands, with a chevron border to the inside of the flared rim, 55.5cm.

Cf. M Butler and Wang Qingzheng, Seventeenth Century Jingdezhen Porcelain from the Shanghai Museum and the Butler Collections, p.168, no.50 for a similar vase.