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A RARE COPPER-RED-GLAZED BOWL AN EXTREMELY RARE IRON-RED ‘DRAGON’ Museum, included in the exhibition Qing Imperial Porcelain of
QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY MEIPING the Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong Reigns, Nanjing Museum
and Art Gallery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1995,
Diameter 5⅞ in., 14.9 cm QING DYNASTY, YONGZHENG / QIANLONG cat. no. 84; and a further bowl in the Victoria and Albert
PERIOD
This unique vessel is exceedingly rare for its shape with a Museum, London (accession no. CIRC.1355-1926), illustrated
domed base terminating in a slightly convex center. Fired Height 13¼ in., 33.6 cm in Rose Kerr, Chinese Ceramics: Porcelain of the Qing Dynasty
upside down in the kilns, the present lot is entirely covered This extremely rare meiping is spiritedly painted with 1644-1911, London, 1986, p. 49, fig. 27.
with a lustrous copper-red glaze save for the mouth rim. ascending and descending dragons in iron-red enamel. ⊖ $ 12,000-15,000
Compare a Yongzheng blue-glazed covered example, but Only one similar meiping is known, bearing a six-character
with a white-glazed base and a four-character reign mark, in Yongzheng mark, sold in our London rooms, 13th December
the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Gugong bowuyuan 1977, lot 523 and illustrated in Giuseppe Eskenazi and Hajni 清雍正 / 乾隆 礬紅彩海水九龍紋梅瓶
cang Qingdai yuyao ciqi, vol. II, Beijing, 2005, pl. 197. In Geng Elias, A Dealer’s Hand. The Chinese Art World Through the
Baochang, Ming Qing ciqi jianding [Appraisal of Ming and Eyes of Giuseppe Eskenazi, London, 2012, pl. 426.
Qing porcelain], Hong Kong, 1993, p. 238, fig. 405, Geng also The unusual composition of the dragons, linked by their
includes a line drawing of a covered vessel of closely related tails or claws, is reminiscent of a group of yellow-ground
form when discussing Yongzheng period porcelains. For iron-red decorated bowls produced during the Yongzheng
earlier examples of similar form, see a famille-verte covered and Qianlong periods. For Yongzheng period examples, see
jar attributed to the late Ming dynasty, in the Butler Family one illustrated in Chinese Porcelain in the S.C. Ko Tianminlou
Collection, and illustrated in Michael Butler, Margaret Medly Collection, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, 1987, cat.
and Stephen Little, Seventeenth-Century Chinese Porcelain no. 102, with a panoramic view of the five dragons, vol. II, p.
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from the Butler Family Collection, Alexandria, 1990, pls 46 146; and another included in the Oriental Ceramic Society
and cover. exhibition Iron in the Fire, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1988,
cat. no. 80. Qianlong period examples are held in important
⊖ $ 8,000-12,000 museums worldwide, including one in the Palace Museum,
Beijing (accession no. Gu 152688), illustrated in Kangxi,
Yongzheng, Qianlong: Qing Porcelain from the Palace Museum
清十八世紀 紅釉缽 Collection, Hong Kong, 1989, pl. 15; another in the Nanjing

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AN ARCHAISTIC IRON-RED-DECORATED STEM
BOWL
QING DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY
the interior with Zhou qi dou mark in iron red, the base with
an illegible six-character fanggu mark within a double square
in iron red
Diameter 7½ in., 19 cm
PROVENANCE
Nagatani Inc., Chicago, March 1986.
Collection of Dr. Peter M. Greiner (1940-2013).
Christie’s New York, 18th-19th September 2014, lot 803.
$ 5,000-7,000

清十九世紀 礬紅彩仿古紋豆
《周齊豆》《□□□□仿古》款

來源
Nagatani Inc.，芝加哥，1986年3月
Peter M. Greiner醫生 (1940-2013) 收藏
375 紐約佳士得2014年9月18至19日，編號803

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