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DRAGONS FROM THE EMPIRE - IMPERIAL CERAMICS FROM THE YIDETANG COLLECTION
龍行皇天 - 藝德堂珍藏御製陶瓷
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A VERY RARE FAMILLE ROSE LEMON YELLOW-GROUND
‘NINE-DRAGON’ DENG AND COVER
QIANLONG IMPRESSED SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARKS AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)
The bowl is brilliantly enamelled with a pair of dragons striding above waves in pursuit
of a flaming pearl below a key-fret band, supported on a tall stem decorated with two
bands of dragons, all raised on a domed foot with two further dragons above waves.
The similarly decorated cover is surmounted by an iron-red spherical finial. The bright
enamels are reserved on a lemon-yellow ground. There is an impressed mark on the
underside of the cover and the underside of the bowl.
10æ in. (27 cm) high, box

PROVENANCE
Sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 29 April 1997, lot 692
HK$4,500,000-5,500,000 US$590,000-710,000

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來源
香港蘇富比，1997 年 4 月 29 日，拍品 692 號

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