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PROPERTY FROM AN AMERICAN PRIVATE COLLECTION 清康熙 闘彩開光山水高士博古圖棒槌瓶
A RARE DOUCAI ‘LANDSCAPE AND HUNDRED
ANTIQUES’ ROULEAU VASE
QING DYNASTY, KANGXI PERIOD
the base with a double circle in underglaze blue
Height 19⅛ in., 48.6 cm
$ 20,000-30,000

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PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED EAST COAST PRIVATE Jars of this design are held in important museums and
COLLECTION private collections worldwide; see a closely related jar from
A RARE DOUCAI ‘DRAGON’ JAR the collection of Sir Augustus Wollaston Franks, in the British
QING DYNASTY, YONGZHENG PERIOD Museum, London (accession no. Franks.338), illustrated in
Sekai toji zhenshu / Ceramic Art of the World, vol. 15, Tokyo,
Height 7⅜ in., 18.7 cm 1983, pl. 195; another in the Victoria and Albert Museum,
This jar is particularly notable for its delicately painted London (accession no. 605-1907), is illustrated in Gulland,
motif of dragon roundels in soft washes of colored enamel Chinese Porcelain, London, 1911, pl. 670; and a further
outlined and detailed in cobalt. The motif and color scheme jar from the E.T. Chow Collection was sold in our London
draws from imperial porcelain of the Chenghua period rooms in 1974, in our Hong Kong rooms in 1981, and again,
(r. 1465-1487), adapted and reinterpreted in accordance to 30th April 1996, lot 487.
contemporary taste. A Yongzheng innovation is evident in
the use of cobalt not only to delineate the different elements $ 15,000-20,000
of the design but also to create texture and a sense of
movement through the dragons’ fine network of scales and 清雍正 闘彩團龍紋罐
their manes.

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