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A RARE DOUCAI ‘DRAGON AND PHOENIX’ 清十八世紀 闘彩龍鳳紋葫蘆瓶
DOUBLE-GOURD VASE
QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY 來源
Height 11⅞ in., 30.2 cm 香港蘇富比2003年10月26日，編號4
古慶堂，香港
PROVENANCE
Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 26th October 2003, lot 4.
Orientique, Hong Kong.
It is extremely rare to find doucai double-gourd vases
decorated with dragon and phoenixes, although the motif
can be found on meiping-shaped vases, including one sold
in these rooms, 5th November 1977, lot 246; another sold
in our London rooms, 12th June 1990, lot 341. A doucai
meiping, also decorated with similar design, attributed to
the Yongzheng period, was included in the Catalogue of
the International Exhibition of Chinese Art 1935-6, Royal
Academy of Arts, London, 1935, cat. no. 2177.
$ 50,000-70,000
50 SOTHEBY’S COMPLETE CATALOGUING AVAILABLE AT SOTHEBYS.COM/N11275 PROPERTY FROM THE BARBARA AND LESTER LEVY COLLECTION 51
