PROVENANCE:

William Worthing March (1940 - 2023) was the proud owner of a kennel club in Florida where he raised racing greyhounds in his early career. Later in life he became a jeweler and opened his own jewelry store. It was through this business that he was able to purchase from estates a collection of fine porcelains that have been consigned to us to sell at auction. During his career he had the opportunity to travel to many foreign countries also adding to his collection.

Dimensions: Length: 34 cm, Width: 14.8 cm, Height: 27.5 cm

Chinese Ming Dynasty Wanli Wucai Dragon Porcelain Incense Burner On Hardwood Stand. Potted in shallow vessel form, thick and deep, rectangle body, heavy on the shoulder with flanked symmetrical handles distributed along the two sides, short neck with open wide mouth rim, raised with short elephant legs on each corners. Hand painted ornamentations are rendered in white base color which contrast against Wucai design color, depicted of imperial five claws dragon flying careening through cumulus clouds above thrashing Li-shui waves. The glaze has smooth texture and moisturizing and uniformly proportion. Which attracting unceasingly admiration.On the Upper Rim bears a reign mark, a six under glazed blue script characters reign mark. Made in The Years of Wanli Reign Period of The Great Ming Dynasty.

Over all in EXCELLENT Condition.
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