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A GREEN-ENAMELED ‘DRAGON’ A RARE AND UNUSUAL
BRUSH WASHER LARGE GREEN-GLAZED AND
19TH CENTURY IRON-RED-DECORATED MOLDED
The vessel is decorated on the interior with a writhing fve-clawed
dragon in pursuit of a faming pearl amidst stylized fames and clouds, ‘DRAGON’ VASE
and the sides of the exterior are similarly decorated. 18TH-19TH CENTURY
The vase is molded in relief with two sinuous, fve-clawed dragons
4¡ in. (11.1 cm.) diam.
decorated in iron-red and gilt, amidst rolling green-glazed waves with
frothy white-enameled crests.
$4,000-6,000
23Ω in. (59.7 cm.) high
PROVENANCE
Harold R. Warner Collection. $15,000-18,000
The Art Institute of Chicago, accessioned in 1939.
PROVENANCE
清十九世紀 白地綠釉龍擒珠紋小筆洗 Mrs. Howell H. Howard Collection, Barrington, Illinois.
The Art Institute of Chicago, accessioned in 1962.
A virtually identical vase, also dated 18th–19th century, was sold at
Christie’s New York, March 2011, lot 1833.
清十八/十九世紀 綠地礬紅描金模印蒼龍教子圖大瓶

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