Details A RARE WUCAI SQUARE-SECTION JARDINÈREMING DYNASTY, MID 17TH CENTURYThe sides are decorated with flowering branches of peach, magnolia, prunus and bamboo that emerge next to rocks and birds. The base is inscribed with a Xuande four-character mark.5 3/4 in. (14.7 cm.) high Provenance Mr. & Mrs. Alfred Clark Collection, United Kingdom, no. 248Sold at Sotheby’s London, 24 March 1953, lot 61John Sparks, London, 27 March 1953The Reginald and Lena Palmer Collection, no. 668 Literature The Royal Academy of Arts, International Exhibition of Chinese Art, London, 1935, pp. 129 & 151, cat. no. 1560Bonham’s, Reginald and Lena Palmer, Their Collection and The Oriental Ceramic Society, 1921-1970, London, 2021, pp. 40-41, no. 10 Exhibited London, The Royal Academy of Arts, International Exhibition of Chinese Art, 28 November 1935- 7 March 1936, ser. nos. 2555London, The Exhibition of Chinese Art, 8 – 28 January 1938, as recorded in the RHRP ledgerLondon, The Oriental Ceramic Society, Polychrome Porcelain of the Ming and Manchu Dynasties, 1950, no. 70, as recorded in the RHRP ledger and according labelBonham’s London, Reginald and Lena Palmer, Their Collection and The Oriental Ceramic Society, 1921-1970: A Loan Exhibition, 25 October – 2 November 2021 Conditions of sale