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A GREEN-ENAMELED BLUE AND WHITE
BOTTLE VASE

18TH CENTURY

The vase is decorated with two fve-clawed dragons
contesting a faming pearl amidst clouds and fames below
the bulbous mouth decorated with a scroll design and
inscribed with an apocryphal Jiajing mark. The spreading
foot is decorated in blue and white with crashing waves.
8¿ in. (20.6 cm.) high
$10,000-15,000

PROVENANCE

Robert West Collection.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, accessioned
in 1950.
For the Jiajing prototype for this vase, see the blue and
white example in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated
in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum
- 35 - Blue and White Porcelain with Underglazed Red (II),
Hong Kong, 2000, p. 87, no. 81. See, also, the blue
and white vase of similar design and with an apocryphal
Jiajing mark on the bulbous mouth, but of smaller size
(20 cm.), from the Estate of Frances Leventritt, sold at
Christie’s New York, 19 September 2006, lot 306.
清十八世紀 青花綠龍紋瓶
來源
Robert West 珍藏。
紐約大都會藝術博物館，入藏於1950年。

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