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PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN 清雍正 青花躍龍戲珠紋供盤
《大清雍正年製》款
A FINE AND RARE BLUE AND
WHITE ‘DRAGON’ TAZZA 來源：
MARK AND PERIOD OF 香港蘇富比1989年5月16日，編號249
YONGZHENG

of circular form with shallow slightly rounded
sides supported on a tall splayed hollow foot,
painted around the sides with a frieze of
interlinked foliate strapwork within line borders,
the foot superbly decorated in shaded tones of
cobalt blue with a five-clawed dragon depicted
striding in pursuit of the flaming pearl above
waves crashing on jagged rockwork, the interior
of the stem inscribed with a horizontal six-
character reign mark
22.5 cm., 8⅞ in.

PROVENANCE

Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 16th May 1989, lot 249.

HK$ 1,500,000-2,000,000
US$ 192,000-256,000

Blue and white tazza of this powerful auspicious
design, painted with a five-clawed dragon
emblematic of the emperor, are frequently
found in the Kangxi and Qianlong period, but it
is extremely rare to find one with a Yongzheng
reign mark. This appears to be the only recorded
example.

For Kangxi reign-marked examples, see the tazza
in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, included
in the Illustrated Catalogue of Ch’ing Dynasty
Porcelain in the National Palace Museum, Taipei,
vol. 1, 1980, pl. 15, and an example offered in
these rooms, 2nd May 1995, lot 60. For Qianlong
reign-marked examples, see one illustrated
in Beauty of Ceramics, vol.3: Blue and White
Porcelain, Taipei, 1993, pl. 153, and an example
sold in our New York rooms, 22nd March 1999,
lot 395.

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