Lot 918. From The Au Bak Ling Collection. A small wucai ‘dragon and phoenix’ dish, Wanli six-character mark within a double circle and of the period (1573-1619); 12.7 cm diam. Price realised HKD 533,400 (Estimate HKD 180,000 – HKD 350,000) © Christie's Images Ltd 2025
 

Provenance: Sold at Sotheby's London, 6 April 1976, lot 121

Note: Compare to a very similar Wanli-marked wucai dish from the Meiyintang Collection, published in Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol. II, London, 1994, vol. II, no. 729. A set of five wucai dishes similarly decorated with a dragon and phoenix in the centre, but with the bajixiang on the inner well, is in the Idemitsu Museum of Art collection, illustrated in Chinese Ceramics in the Idemitsu Collection, Tokyo, 1987, no. 760.