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ANOTHER PROPERTY

1590

A RARE POLYCHROME-DECORATED BLUE AND
WHITE GREEN-GROUND VASE
KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)

The tapering ovoid body is decorated in underglaze
blue with a four-clawed dragon chasing a faming
pearl amidst clouds as a tiger looks on from a grassy
promontory, all in a landscape of water, rocks and
trees below three rose sprigs on the slightly waisted
neck, and detailed in yellow, aubergine and green
against a ground of pale green color. An apocryphal
Chenghua mark is on the base.

16¬ in. (42.2 cm.) high

$6,000-8,000

PROVENANCE

Mrs. Colis P. Huntington Collection, by 1911.
S. Gorer & Son, London.
Douglas W. Morse, Pasadena, California, 1999.
Katherine Kaufman Collection, San Diego, California.

LITERATURE

E. Gorer and J. F. Blacker, Chinese Porcelain and Hard
Stones, vol. I, London, 1911, pl. 52.

The dragon and tiger represent the powers of air and land,
and are considered the yin and yang guardians.
清康熙 素三彩龍虎圖瓶

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