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Impo rtant Chinese Art
New York |23 Sep 2020 | 09:00 AM EDT

Lot 548

A BLUE AND WHITE AND IRON-RED 'DRAGON' BOWL, KANGXI MARK AND PERIOD
Estimate: 30,000 - 50,000 USD

A BLUE AND WHITE AND IRON-RED 'DRAGON' BOWL
KANGXI MARK AND PERIOD
清康熙 青花礬紅彩海水龍紋盌 《大清康熙年製》款

with deep, rounded sides rising from a straight foot to an everted rim, the exterior painted with nine red dragons in varying
vigorous poses over a ground of swirling and cresting waves below a band of interlocking coins encircling the mouth, the interior
centered by a medallion of a single dragon in profile, the interior mouth and foot encircled with double-line borders, the base
inscribed with a six-character mark in underglaze blue within a double circle

Diameter 7¼ in., 18.5 cm

Catalogue Note
Compare a closely related bowl in the Palace Museum Collection, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace
Museum. Miscellaneous Enamelled Porcelains. Plain Tricolour Porcelains, Shanghai, 2009, pl. 146. See also several similar

examples sold at auction; two single bowls both sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 30th October 2002, lot 289, and 25th April 2004,

lot 306; a pair also sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 5th April 2017, lot 3678; and another pair sold at Christie’s Hong Kong,
29th November 2017, lot 3005.

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