Fine Chinese Works of Art - 13th November 2018
Lot 232
A LARGE CHINESE WUCAI GU TRANSITIONAL C.1640 Painted with enamels and gilt with lavish flowersprays
Estimate £12,000 - £18,000 | Hammer £12000
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Description
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.