Ming wanli Color shade of willow trees cover box warbler butterfly tattoo

• RMB 1380000
• HKD 1555806
• USD 207000
• EUR 151800

thank Bern castles, Dorset, UK (loan)

cover box modelling, stocky body dense solid. Whole grain appearance with under glaze blue and white, color sketch rendering on glaze, cover the top draw shade of willow trees warbler butterfly figure, green warbler in pairs, the rest in the shade of willow trees; Butterfly in pairs, play in the flower; Covering and box body full draw branches of litchi, grape, peach, camellia, decorative design in a utensil brilliance. Painted flowers back and forth, lush leaves, the color bright, comparative and intense. Cover and the box body thru YunLei lines for a week. The overall shape neat geometric, enamel are net fatness, freehand brushwork in traditional Chinese painting permeance, grain is pure and fresh and natural. Bottom is lagged “daming Wan Linian” six pairs of travel model to come.
wanli mother CiSheng queen mother, the original is a humble li maid-in-waiting, luck man and the emperor wanli emperor, hence your mother to child, be seal for the imperial concubine. Longqing after the emperor died, is considered a queen CiSheng. Palace of the life is full of dangerous, after Li Tai had to work hard to consolidate their hard-won political status. She claimed to be nine lotus buddhist metempsychosis. In the Indian buddhist stories, the parrot is only the birds, folk story also has a lot of bodhisattva has several degrees into the parrot. Parrot not only blarney, clean and sound solemn end, its sound and peaceful, beautiful, elegant, solemn and Buddhism has a similar place, thus become the symbol of happiness, peace of Buddhism. “Xuan take wing mau” for the common women ShouLian expressions, wishes mother always young. Xuan take this refers to a kind of herbaceous plants, the legend can let a person worry, said mother old bedroom as the “mother”, after “xuan” for the mother or the mother to live.
cover box has strong practicability, for four, often used for small reward items, such as the ancient ink is placed. The product shape and also the ceramic archaeological institute hid in the color of flowers and birds with similar lines cover box, see “into precious – jingdezhen kiln bead mountain unearthed chenghua imperial porcelain”, also the ceramic institute of archaeology, the art institute jointly published the hsu, 1993, pp. 182, figure C47 flight; Decorative style and the case of wanli colorful painting of flowers and flower fruit grain holding box is the same, in the London sotheby’s sold on December 7, 1993, no. 236.