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fig. 1 A green-enamelled ‘dragon’ jar, Qianlong
seal mark and period; image courtesy of the
Palace Museum, Beijing.

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A green-enamelled ‘dragon’ jar and cover
Qianlong seal mark and of the period
Typically painted in delicate blue and neatly enamelled in rich translucent
green with two five-clawed dragons in mutual pursuit of flaming pearls
between stiff lappets at the foot and a narrow ruyi-head band below
the Eight Buddhist Emblems, bajixiang, at the shoulder, the cover with a
central coiled dragon.
21cm (8¼in) high (2).
£70,000 - 100,000
HK$820,000 - 1,200,000 CNY660,000 - 940,000

清乾隆 鬥彩八吉祥雲龍紋蓋罐 青花「大清乾隆年製」篆書款

Provenance: Christie’s London, 10 June 1996, lot 125
The Inder Rieden Collection

來源：倫敦佳士得，1996年6月10日，拍品編號125
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The present jar continues a tradition which first emerged in the Kangxi
period; see a green-enamelled ‘dragon’ jar and cover, Kangxi mark
and of the period, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures
of the Palace Museum: Porcelains in Polychrome and Contrasting
Colours, Hong Kong, 1999, vol.38, no.190 (see fig.1 above). A similar
green-enamelled ‘dragon’ jar and cover, Qianlong seal mark and of the
period, from the Tianminlou Foundation, is illustrated by L.A.Cort and
J.Stuart, Joined Colors: Decoration and Meaning in Chinese Porcelain,
Washington D.C. and Hong Kong, 1993, pl.45; and for another
example, see Treasures in the Royalty: The Official Kiln Porcelain of the
Chinese Qing Dynasty, Shanghai, 2003, p.271.

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