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A RARE LARGE FAMILLE-NOIRE ‘DRAGON’ 㶭㛓ġġġ⡐⛘䳈ᶱ⼑漵椾憽㕡⌘
SEAL
⌘㔯烉⹟䅁䘯ⷅ⽉奥ᷳ⮞
LATE QING DYNASTY
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of square section, applied to the top with a pair of addorsed GeorgeġHįġTaberġĩ1859Į1940Īġ㓞啷
dragon heads forming the Þ nial, centered by a frontal dragon Grahamġ⍲ġMargaretġGrovesġằ⃟㓞啷炻䥹≺䇦味ⶫ
in relief coiling around a ‘ß aming pearl’ among clouds and 䇦㕗炻ἃⶆ炷⁛炸
ß ames, the sides with four further striding dragons, all
against a rich black ground, the seal face inscribed in zhuwen ࢝ᚎ
style with eight characters reading Kangxi huangdi yulan ⌉ℏ➢伶埻棐炻⋡勚⟉炻屻⢽㱽⯤Ṇⶆ炻1935军1940
zhibao (seal for the appreciation of the Kangxi emperor) ⸜炷ῇ⯽炸
Width 7½ in., 19.2 cm
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PROVENANCE BertholdġLauferġ㑘㔯墯⌘ẞ炻˨ThreeġImperialġPorcelainġ
Collection of George H. Taber (1859-1940). Seals˩炻厚䇦⽟冒䃞⎚⌂䈑棐炻1933⸜9㚰25㖍
Collection of Graham and Margaret Groves, Coral Gables, FL ˨AġRareġCollectionġofġChineseġArtĻġPorcelainsĭġJadesġ
(by repute). andġHornġCarvingsġShownġinġtheġExquisiteġExamplesġinġ
theġGeorgeġHįġTaberġLoanġtoġtheġCarnegieġInstitute˩炻
EXHIBITED
˪CarnegieġMagazine˫炻↲10炻1937⸜3㚰炻⚾IV⍲V炻
The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (on
枩293
loan) 1935-1940.
ChaoġMingġChen炻˨SymbolismġinġChineseġPorcelainġ
LITERATURE Decoration˩炻˪TheġBulletinġofġtheġAmericanġCeramicġ
Berthold Laufer, Copy of a note, ‘Three Imperial Porcelain Society˫炻⌟20炻䶐嘇6炻1941⸜6㚰炻枩197
Seals’, Field Museum of Natural History, 25th September
1933.
‘A Rare Collection of Chinese Art: Porcelains, Jades and Horn
Carvings Shown in the Exquisite Examples in the George H.
Taber Loan to the Carnegie Institute’, Carnegie Magazine,
vol. 10, March 1937, Þ gs. IV, V, p. 293.
Chao Ming Chen, ‘Symbolism in Chinese Porcelain
Decoration’, The Bulletin of the American Ceramic Society,
vol. 20, no. 6, June 1941, p. 197.

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