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A RARE YELLOW-GROUND AND IRON-RED- 清雍正 黃地礬紅彩龍紋盌
DECORATED ‘DRAGON’ BOWL, 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 square Herman A. E. (1951年逝) 及 Paul C. (1951年逝)
Diameter 4⅝ in., 11.8 cm
Jaehne 收藏
PROVENANCE 1941年贈予紐瓦克博物館，紐瓦克 (館藏編號
Collection of Herman A. E. (d.1951) and Paul C. (d. 1951) Jaehne. 41.1973)
Gifted to The Newark Museum, Newark, in 1941 (accession
no. 41.1973).
The present bowl is striking for its rare combination
of fiercely painted dragons in iron-red enamels on a
lustrous yellow ground. Yongzheng bowls of this type are
exceptionally rare and only a few have been recorded. See
a closely related example illustrated in Chinese Porcelain in
the S.C. Ko Tianminlou Collection, Hong Kong Museum of
Art, Hong Kong, 1987, cat. no. 102; another was included
in the Oriental Ceramic Society exhibition Iron in the
Fire, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1988, cat. no. 80; a
third, was sold in these rooms, 30th May 1990, lot 190.
A Yongzheng mark and period dish, similarly decorated in
iron-red, but on a café-au-lait ground, from the Barbara and
Lester Levy Collection, was recently sold in these rooms,
20th September 2023, lot 510.
This type continued to be produced under the Qianlong
Emperor, and Qianlong mark and period bowls of this
design are more commonly found. See a Qianlong mark and
period bowl in the Palace Museum, Beijing (accession no.
Gu 152688), illustrated in Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong: Qing
Porcelain from the Palace Museum Collection, Hong Kong,
1989, p. 334, pl. 15; another in the Nanjing Museum, included
in the exhibition Qing Imperial Porcelain of the Kangxi,
Yongzheng and Qianlong Reigns, Nanjing Museum, 1995,
cat. no. 84; a further bowl in the Victoria and Albert Museum,
London (accession no. CIRC.1355-1926), illustrated in
Rose Kerr, Chinese Ceramics: Porcelain of the Qing Dynasty
1644-1911, London, 1986, fig. 27; lastly, a pair recently sold in
our Hong Kong rooms, 12th October 2021, lot 25.
$ 40,000-60,000

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