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A BLUE AND WHITE ‘DRAGON’ A SILVER MOUNTED BLUE AND WHITE A BLUE AND WHITE HEXAGONAL
PORCELAIN SHARD JAR BOTTLE VASE
Early Ming Dynasty Chongzhen Chongzhen
Depicting the head of dragon with large Painted with a seated gentleman and boy The body decorated with gentlemen and
bulging eyes below swirling clouds, the shard attendant in a fenced garden amongst attendants in a pine-strewn mountainous
forming a section of a large jar. bamboo, pine, plantain and rockwork, with landscape, the neck with floral and foliate
21cm (8 1/4in) long silver neck mounts and cover. panels. 27.5cm (10 7/8in) high
12.7cm (5in) high (2).
£800 - 1,200 £600 - 800
HK$7,800 - 12,000 £800 - 1,200 HK$5,800 - 7,800
CNY6,800 - 10,000 HK$7,800 - 12,000 CNY5,100 - 6,800
CNY6,800 - 10,000
The dragon bears a resemblance to that 192
depicted on the Xuande mark and period TWO BLUE AND WHITE JARS
jar illustrated in Valenstein, Suzanne G. A Late Ming Dynasty
Handbook of Chinese Ceramics, New York: Each of globular form, one decorated with
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975, pl. figures in a garden, the other with lotus
82. Compare also to a shard from a large flowers borne on scrolling foliage.
jar with masks and dragons excavated from The tallest: 20cm (7 7/8in) high (2).
the Xuande strata at the site of the imperial
kilns at Jingdezhen, illustrated in Chang
Foundation, Xuande Imperial Porcelain £1,200 - 1,500
excavated at Jingdezhen, Taipei, 1998, no. HK$12,000 - 15,000
F-17. CNY10,000 - 13,000

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