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A FINELY ENAMELED IRON-RED-DECORATED
SGRAFFITO-GROUND ‘DRAGON AND PHOENIX’
BOWL AND A COVER

QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARKS IN IRON RED AND OF THE
PERIOD (1736-1795)

The bowl is enameled with a dragon chasing a flaming pearl on one
side and a phoenix on the other, both amidst ruyi-form clouds and on
a white-enameled sgraffto ground incised with meandering lotus scroll.
The cover is decorated with two dragons chasing flaming pearls amidst
clouds and flames on a sgraffto ground incised with waves, the interior
and base covered with an even turquoise enamel.
4º in. (10.7 cm.) diam.

$70,000-90,000

PROVENANCE

Mrs. Henry J. Bernheim Collection.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, accessioned in 1945.

A similar covered bowl decorated with dragon and phoenix design
on an incised ground of lotus scrolls, in the collection of the Palace
Museum, Beijing, is illustrated in Kangxi Yongzheng Qianlong, Qing
Porcelain from the Palace Museum Collection, Hong Kong, 1995, p. 332.

清乾隆 白地軋道礬紅龍鳳紋盌及蓋 礬紅六字篆書款

來源
Henry J. Bernheim 夫人珍藏。
紐約大都會藝術博物館，入藏於1945年。

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