A set of five blue and white dishes, Ming dynasty, Wanli (1572-1620).

After a metal shape, decorated with deers in a landscape setting. Diameter 20 cm.

Crack, fritting to rim.

Alkuperä - Provenienssi

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 2007 Sale 544 lot no 1665.

Kirjallisuus

Compare Christie's, The Peony Pavilion Collection 12th June 1989, lot 206, p 24, 25.

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