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A PAIR OF BLUE AND WHITE CUPS A VERY RARE AND UNUSUAL COPPER-RED-DECORATED BLUE
YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARKS IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND WHITE ‘DRAGON’ MEIPING
AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735) 18TH CENTURY
With rounded sides rising to a slightly everted rim, the bowls are decorated on The heavily potted vase is decorated in rich copper-red with two fve-clawed
one side with a monkey seated on a branch holding a peach and on the other dragons, one shown striding amidst blue clouds interspersed with copper-red
side with a deer in a landscape setting. fames as it emits a stream of water from its mouth towards the roiling waves
below, from which rises the second dragon.
2æ in. (7 cm.) diam.
12æ in. (32.3 cm.) high
$7,000-9,000
$10,000-12,000
清雍正 青花封侯加祿盃一對 六字楷書款
Compare the similar meiping, possibly decorated by the same hand, sold
at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 15-16 November 1988, lot 250. Another vase of
somewhat diferent meiping shape, also sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 26
October 2003, lot 136, and now in the collection of Xu Qiming, is illustrated
in A Collection of Porcelain, Zhejiang Museum, 2006, pp. 112-13. This meiping,
which is dated Yongzheng, has a similar use of blue wash to represent the
clouds, but rather than have one dragon rising from the waves, both are
amidst the clouds, and the wave band is depicted as wind-tossed and froth-
capped rather than the rolling waves of the present meiping.
清十八世紀 青花釉裏紅雲龍紋梅瓶
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