Ming Wanli Wucai cranes porcelain tea pot
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Dimensions: 8-3/4" H x 7-3/4" W
Chinese Ming Dynasty Period, Wucai cranes porcelain tea pot. Potted in tea pot shape, thick and slight tall, cylindrical body, slight heavy on lower belly, gently toward short round neck, with curved spout flanked on the med belly, emerge u shape handles giving a balance on the opposite sides, flanked on the shoulder and the lid with finial bud fitted perfectly unto gallery mouth without any gap, raised with flat round foot base. The exterior hand painted ornamentations are rendered in clean white under glazed base color which contrast against wucai design, WuCai or five-color shades and tones, brightly painted around the exterior, between the filling motif decorated in colorful vivid sgrafitto ground of uptala, depicted of many flying cranes surrounded with flowers blooms, dense tree, water plants and lishui river. The clay is very fine, with a brilliant glaze finish that was applied by a meticulous, the shape is uniformly proportioned.
Mark on base, a six under glazed blue script characters reign mark, Made in The Years of Wanli Reign Period of Great Ming Dynasty.
Chinese Ming Dynasty Period, Wucai cranes porcelain tea pot. Potted in tea pot shape, thick and slight tall, cylindrical body, slight heavy on lower belly, gently toward short round neck, with curved spout flanked on the med belly, emerge u shape handles giving a balance on the opposite sides, flanked on the shoulder and the lid with finial bud fitted perfectly unto gallery mouth without any gap, raised with flat round foot base. The exterior hand painted ornamentations are rendered in clean white under glazed base color which contrast against wucai design, WuCai or five-color shades and tones, brightly painted around the exterior, between the filling motif decorated in colorful vivid sgrafitto ground of uptala, depicted of many flying cranes surrounded with flowers blooms, dense tree, water plants and lishui river. The clay is very fine, with a brilliant glaze finish that was applied by a meticulous, the shape is uniformly proportioned.
Mark on base, a six under glazed blue script characters reign mark, Made in The Years of Wanli Reign Period of Great Ming Dynasty.
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Ming Wanli Wucai cranes porcelain tea pot
Estimate $800 - $1,200
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