Ming wanli Blue and white live corning grain bottle

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auction record: Christie’s in New York, September 18, 1997, Lot365.

lots short straight mouth, neck decorations in grain, shoulder decorated flower pattern around a week branches. Theme grain to shochiku plum branches winding forming deformation “fu and shou, kang, ning” four characters, the adornment style popular in jia wan. Straight mouth thin neck, round belly, to recognize exactly in line with the period of late Ming literati aesthetics. As Zhang Qian, namely, in his book “bottle florilegium” records: “every flower storage, must choose the first bottle, spring winter with copper, autumn summer with magnetic… Your magnetic, copper… Oral small and thick, take its safe and don ‘t be discouraged. “the View lots more blue and white color, thick enamel run, white, green, modelling is simple, is the best in the wanli once blue – and – white ware.