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A BLUE AND WHITE ‘DRAGON’ BOWL EXHIBITED 㶭⹟䅁ġġġ曺剙䤷⢥暚漵䲳䙴
KANGXI MARK AND PERIOD An Exhibition of the Paul Baerwald Collection of ˪⣏㶭⹟䅁⸜墥˫㫦
Chinese Porcelain, John Sparks, London, 1937,
with rounded sides gently rising from a slightly cat. no. 53. Ը๕
tapered foot to a ß ared rim, the exterior PaulġBaerwald炷1871Į1961炸㓞啷
painted in rich cobalt tones with two Þ ve- Compare a similar bowl in the Powell-Cotton
clawed dragons striding amidst ß ame scrolls Collection, Kent, illustrated in Gordon Lang, The JohnġSparks炻ΐ㔎炻1937⸜6㚰29㖍
Powell-Cotton Collection of Chinese Ceramics,
each in pursuit of a ‘ß aming pearl’, above a ⎚吪剔ɀ䑲偗ᶱᶾ炷1978⸜必炸㓞啷
band of overlapping lappets and separated by Birchington, 1988, pl. 82. A pair of bowls of this ࢝ᚎ
two lingzhi sprigs each supporting a shaped design were sold at Christie’s London, 8th June ˪AnġExhibitionġofġtheġPaulġBaerwaldġ
cartouche enclosing fu and shou characters, 1992, lot 36, and a single bowl was sold in our
London rooms, 11th July 1978, lot 213. CollectionġofġChineseġPorcelain˫炻Johnġ
all within double line borders, the interior with
a circular medallion enclosing a single frontal $ 30,000-50,000 Sparks炻ΐ㔎炻1937⸜炻䶐嘇53
dragon, the base with a six-character mark in
underglaze blue within a double circle
Diameter 5⅛ in., 13.2 cm

PROVENANCE
Collection of Paul Baerwald (1871-1961).
John Sparks, London, 29th June 1937.
Collection of Stephen Junkunc, III (d. 1978).

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