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A very rare Imperial yellow-ground ‘dragon’ barrel-shaped
garden seat
Jiajing/Wanli
The heavily potted stool boldly incised on the sides with one striding
five-clawed dragon glazed with a pale aubergine body with green
and brown-glazed scales and claws in pursuit of another five-clawed
dragon with a brown-glazed body embellished with aubergine and
green scales, all above foaming waves issuing blossoming and leafy
lotus stems, between two rows of brown-glazed applied bosses
enclosed by two rows of lotus scroll at the foot and top, the seat with
two further five-clawed dragons amid lotus on a yellow-glazed-ground.
34.2cm (13½in) high
£50,000 - 60,000
HK$590,000 - 710,000 CNY470,000 - 560,000
明嘉靖/萬曆 御製黃地紫綠彩龍紋繡墩
fig. 1 A yellow-ground ‘dragon’ seat, Ming Dynasty;
image courtesy of the Palace Museum, Beijing.
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