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A RARE BLUE AND WHITE YELLOW-ENAMELLED The decorative scheme employed on the present bowl appears to
‘DRAGON’ BOWL have derived from the Imperial porcelain wares manufactured during
Kangxi six-character mark and of the period the Jiajing reign of the Ming dynasty; see for example a blue and white
The bowl finely potted with deep rounded sides rising from a tapered bowl, Jiajing mark and period, decorated with two scaly dragons
foot to an everted rim, the interior centred with a medallion enclosing a alternating with lingzhi sprays framing the shou and fu characters,
five-clawed dragon picked out in blue on a yellow ground, the exterior which was sold at Sotheby’s New York, 23 March 2011, lot 721.
similarly decorated with a pair of sinuous dragons striding through
flames above overlapping lotus petals, each alternating with a lingzhi Compare with a similarly decorated blue and white and yellow-ground
spray supporting a cinquefoil cartouche enclosing respectively the bowl, Kangxi mark and period, in the Nanjing Museum, Jiangxu
shou and fu characters. Province, illustrated by Huping Hsu, Treasures in the Royalty:
13cm (5 1/8in) diam. The Official Kiln Porcelain of the Qing Dynasty, Shanghai, 2003,
p. 71. Another example, Kangxi mark and period, in the collection
£20,000 - 30,000 of the Provincial Museum, Jiangxi Province, is illustrated by Tie Yuan,
CNY180,000 - 260,000 The Complete Collection of Porcelain of Jiangxi Province: Porcelain
of the Qing Dynasty, Beijing, 2005, vol.1, p.89.
清康熙 黃地青花雲龍紋盌 A closely related blue and white and yellow-ground ‘dragon’ bowl,
青花「大清康熙年製」楷書款 Kangxi mark and period, decorated with shou and fu characters,
was sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 7 October 2015, lot 3724.
Provenance: Christie’s New York, 20 September 2005, lot 322
An English private collection

來源：紐約佳士得，2005年9月20日，拍品編號322
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