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propertY From the CoLLeCtIon oF roBert YoUnGman 清十八世紀 青花海水雲龍戲珠紋抱月瓶
AN EXTREMELY RARE AND LARGE BLUE AND 來源
WHITE ‘DRAGON’ MOONFLASK 倫敦蘇富比1989年6月13日，編號263
QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY Weisbrod Chinese Art, Ltd.，紐約
紐約佳士得2001年3月20日，編號245
skillfully potted with a broad, gently compressed, rounded
body rising to a waisted neck and lipped rim, the neck 展覽
flanked by a pair of archaistic chilong-form handles, each Michael B. Weisbrod, Inc.，紐約，1992年
side of the body exquisitely and richly painted in shades 《Inaugural Exhibition of the Robert F. Reiff Gallery of
of cobalt blue with a frontal five-clawed dragon, limbs Asian Art》，明德大學藝術博物館，米德爾堡，佛蒙
outstretched and soaring sinuously around a ‘flaming pearl’
amidst flaming wisps and stylized clouds, all above rolling 特州，2005年9月
and cresting waves, the neck with a central bat roundel 《Azure Skies and Pure Snows》，明德大學藝術博物
flanked by clouds between a lappet band and a border of 館，米德爾堡，佛蒙特州，2007年9至12月
further rolling waves below the rim, the base white-glazed
height 15½ in, 39.4 cm
PROVENANCE
sotheby’s London, 13th June 1989, lot 263.
Weisbrod Chinese art, Ltd., new York.
Christie’s new York, 20th march 2001, lot 245.
EXHIBITED
michael B. Weisbrod, Inc., new York, 1992.
Inaugural Exhibition of the Robert F. Reiff Gallery of Asian Art,
middlebury College museum of art, middlebury, Vermont,
september 2005.
Azure Skies and Pure Snows, middlebury College museum of
art, middlebury, Vermont, september-December 2007.

$ 300,000-500,000

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