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A DOUCAI CONICAL ‘DRAGON’ London, 1925, pl. LV, " g. 1; and another in the
BOWL collection of the Asian Art Museum of San
Francisco is illustrated in Chinese Ceramics in
YONGZHENG MARK AND PERIOD
the Avery Brundage Collection, San Francisco,
" nely potted, with wide ! ared sides rising from 1967, pl. LXXIII (C). See also a bowl of this type
a short straight foot, brilliantly enameled to the from the Aykroyd collection, illustrated in Soame
exterior with two " ve-clawed dragons, one in Jenyns, Later Chinese Porcelain, London, 1951,
yellow and the other in green, each in pursuit pl. XCIV, " g. 3, and sold in our Hong Kong rooms,
of a ‘! aming pearl’ and leaping from a band of 17th May 1966, lot 230; and a pair sold in these
turbulent crested waves amidst multi-colored rooms, 8th December 1992, lot 269.
cloud and ! ame scrolls, the base with a six- This bowl belongs to a group of porcelain wares
character mark in underglaze blue discussed by Peter Y.K. Lam in ‘Lang Tinji (1663-
Diameter 7⅝ in., 19.2 cm 1715) and the Porcelain of the Late Kangxi Period’,
Transactions of the Oriental Ceramic Society, vol.
PROVENANCE
68, 2002-2003, p. 44, which he attributes to the
Massachusetts Private Collection. early years of the Yongzheng reign on account of
Bowls of this powerful design are held in their unusual marks.
important museums and private collections
$ 40,000-60,000
worldwide; for example, one in the Palace
Museum, Beijing, is illustrated in Qing Porcelain འ͍ ৸ऎ˥ථᎲႼम७ୈό䋘
from the Palace Museum Collection. Kangxi,
ɽའ͍ϋႡಛ
Yongzheng, Qianlong, Hong Kong, 1989, pl. 30;
a pair in the Nanjing Museum, Nanjing, was Ը๕
included in the exhibition Qing Imperial Porcelain ௦ӷɛϗᔛ
of the Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong Reigns,
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong
Kong, 1995, cat. no. 52; a single bowl in the
British Museum, London, is published in R.L.
Hobson, The Later Ceramic Wares of China,
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