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PROPERTY FROM AN AMERICAN PRIVATE COLLECTION 清雍正 闘彩團雲龍紋罐
A RARE DOUCAI ‘DRAGON’ JAR, MARK AND 《大清雍正年製》款
PERIOD OF YONGZHENG
the base with a six-character mark in underglaze blue within 來源：
a double circle, wood cover (2) 1990年代購於弗吉尼亞州
Height 6⅝ in., 16.9 cm

PROVENANCE
Acquired in Virginia in the 1990s.
This jar is particularly notable for its delicately painted motif
of dragon roundels in soft washes of colored enamel outlined
and detailed in cobalt. The motif and color scheme draw
from imperial porcelain of the Chenghua period (1465-1487),
adapted and reinterpreted in accordance to contemporary
taste. A Yongzheng innovation is evident in the use of cobalt
not only to delineate the different elements of the design but
also to create texture and a sense of movement through the
dragons’ fine network of scales and manes.
Jars of this design are held in important museums and
private collections worldwide; see a closely related jar from
the collection of Sir Augustus Wollaston Franks in the British
Museum, London (accession no. Franks.338), illustrated in
Sekai toji zhenshu / Ceramic Art of the World, vol. 15, Tokyo,
1983, pl. 195; another in the Victoria and Albert Museum,
London (accession no. 605-1907), is illustrated in W.G.
Gulland, Chinese Porcelain, London, 1911, pl. 670; one from
the Tsui Museum of Art, Hong Kong, is illustrated in The
Tsui Museum of Art, Chinese Ceramics IV, Qing dynasty,
Hong Kong, 1995, pl. 138; a further jar from the E.T. Chow
Collection, was sold three times, most recently in our Hong
Kong rooms, 30th April 1996, lot 487.
For a prototype of this form and design, see a Chenghua
mark and period covered jar with floral roundels, from the
Qing Court Collection and in the Palace Museum, Beijing
(accession no. 00115586), illustrated ibid., pl. 168; and
a reconstructed cup with roundels of winged dragons,
excavated from the Chenghua stratum at the waste heaps
of the imperial kiln factory in Jingdezhen, included in the
exhibition A Legacy of Chenghua. Imperial Porcelain from the
Chenghua Reign Excavated from Zhushan, Jingdezhen, Tsui
401 Museum of Art, Hong Kong, 1993, cat. no. C120.

PROPERTY FROM THE BARBARA AND LESTER LEVY 清乾隆 青花地黃彩雲龍趕珠紋盤 $ 40,000-60,000
COLLECTION
《大清乾隆年製》款
AN UNDERGLAZE-BLUE AND YELLOW-
ENAMELED ‘DRAGON’ DISH, SEAL MARK AND
PERIOD OF QIANLONG 來源:
吉慶堂，香港，1995年1月6日
the base with a six-character seal mark in underglaze blue
Diameter 9⅞ in., 25.2 cm
PROVENANCE
Orientique, Hong Kong, 6th January 1995.
$ 3,000-5,000

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