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AN EXCEPTIONAL AND EXTREMELY RARE BLUE AND

WHITE ‘WINGED DRAGON’ JARLET
MING DYNASTY, YONGLE – EARLY XUANDE PERIOD

明永樂至宣德初期 青花海水騰龍紋小罐

potted with a compressed globular body resting on a 來源：
countersunk base and surmounted by a short constricted neck, 仇焱之收藏（1910-1980年）
the exterior superbly painted in rich tones of cobalt blue with a 趙從衍收藏（1912-1999年）
pair of winged dragons riding on waves and soaring sinuously 香港蘇富比1987年5月19日，編號227
above crashing and breaking waves skirting the lower body, 展覽：
each mythical beast depicted retaining fins in the process of 《中國青花瓷器》，香港東方陶瓷學會，香港大會堂／香港博物美術
transformation from fish to dragon, all below a border of foliate 館，1975年，編號16
scrollwork radiating from the short neck, the unglazed base
《趙從衍家族基金會珍藏明清瓷器展覽圖錄》，香港藝術館，香
with concentric stepped rings 港，1978年，編號13
11.4 cm, 4½ in. 《天民樓藏瓷》，香港藝術館，香港，1987年，編號18
《天民樓青花瓷器展覽》，鴻禧美術館，台北，1992年，編號34
PROVENANCE
《天民樓青花瓷特展》，上海博物館，上海，1996年
Collection of Edward T. Chow (1910-1980),
Collection of T.Y. Chao (1912-1999). 出版：
Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 19th May 1987, lot 227. 耿寶昌，《明清瓷器鑑定》，香港，1993年，圖版80
《天民樓珍藏青花瓷器》，上海，1996年，編號35
EXHIBITED
Exhibition of Chinese Blue and White Porcelain and Related
Underglaze Red, The Oriental Ceramic Society of Hong Kong,
City Museum and Art Gallery, Hong Kong, 1975, cat. no. 16.
Ming and Ch’ing Porcelain from the Collection of the T.Y. Chao
Family Foundation, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong,
1978, cat. no. 13.
Chinese Porcelain in the S.C. Ko Tianminlou Collection, Hong
Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, 1987, cat. no. 18.
Blue and White Porcelain from the Tianminlou Collection, Chang
Foundation, Taipei, 1992, cat. no. 34.
Tianminlou qinghua ci tezhan [Special exhibition of blue and
white porcelain from the Tianminlou collection], Shanghai
Museum, Shanghai, 1996.
LITERATURE
Geng Baochang, Ming Qing ciqi jianding [Appraisal of Ming and
Qing porcelain], Hong Kong, 1993, pl. 80.
Blue and White Porcelain from the Collection of Tianminlou
Foundation, Shanghai, 1996, no. 35.

HK$ 8,000,000-12,000,000
US$ 1,020,000-1,530,000

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