A large blue and white bowl, Ming dynasty, Wanli (1572-1620).
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Decorated in underglaze blue with a continuous scene with deers and cranes in a garden full of plants such as banana, peonies, chrysanthemum etc. Along the rim a broad band decorated with cranes amidst cloud formation. The center with a mythical beast below a rim decorated with squirrels by fruit vines. Diameter 31 cm. Height 16.5 cm.
Firingspots. Fritting to rim.
Provenance
Property of a private Finnish Collection.
The collection was formed between 1980-2020, the collector has had an interest in China and Chinese Works of Art since childhood, growing up in Beijing. He returned to China in grownup years for work, he came to live in China altogether more than 40 years. His love of China, and Chinese works of art is mirrored in the collection and being an academic collector, he never got tired of learning more about the subject by studying literature, attending lectures, visiting museums, auction houses and befriending curators from Peking, Hong Kong, London, Paris, and Stockholm. The collection consists of both Chinese ceramics and textiles, This being part 1.
Purchased at Bukowskis, auction 601, lot no 444. The Stenbeck Collection Part II.
Exhibitions
The Stenbeck Collection was exhibited at the Heinola Museum in Finland in 2000, under the exhibition name “The Liberated Brush”.