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2248 VARIOUS PROPERTIES
D2248
2249 A GREEN AND AUBERGINE-DECORATED
YELLOW-GROUND DISH
100 18TH-19TH CENTURY

The interior of the heavily potted dish
is decorated with a green dragon and an
aubergine dragon leaping amidst clouds and
fames as they contest a faming pearl below
eight fowers including lotus, rose, peony,
crab apple, prunus, camellia, chrysanthemum
and hollyhock in the rounded well, while
a frieze of four dragons at similar pursuit
decorates the exterior. A Kangxi mark is on
the base.
13√ in. (35.3 cm.) diam.

$8,000-12,000

清十八/十九世紀
素三彩雙龍戲珠紋盤

2249
AN UNUSUAL FAMILLE VERTE BOTTLE
VASE
19TH CENTURY

The neck is decorated on one side with
a woman seated on a terrace watching a
mouse and on the reverse with two farmers
approaching a bridge, all above two striding
dragons applied to the shoulder above waves
decorated with sea creatures, prunus fowers
and auspicious symbols on the body.
15æ in. (40 cm.) high

$5,000-7,000

PROVENANCE:

Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio.
Christie’s East, New York, 18 September
2000, lot 112.
The Chinese Porcelain Company, New
York.

LITERATURE:

E. Gorer and J. F. Blacker, Chinese Porcelain
and Hard Stones, London, vol. I, 1911, pl. 45.
Walter Bondy, Kan-hsi, Munich, 1923, p.
153.
清十九世紀
素三彩海馬紋堆塑螭龍長頸瓶