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A FINELY PAINTED AND RARE BLUE AND 清乾隆 青花雲龍戲珠紋螭龍耳扁壺
WHITE ‘DRAGON’ MOONFLASK 《大清乾隆年製》款
SEAL MARK AND PERIOD OF QIANLONG
來源:
skilfully potted with a broad body rising from a short splayed 香港佳士得1987年1月13日,編號529
foot to a waisted neck and flared rim, the neck flanked by
a pair of archaistic scroll handles, each side of the body
exquisitely and richly painted in shaded tones of cobalt blue
with a five-clawed dragon soaring sinuously around a ‘flaming
pearl’ below a bat at the neck, all amidst flaming wisps and ruyi
cloud swirls above a frieze of crashing waves and rockwork,
the foot skirted with a border of cloud scrolls and four bats, the
base inscribed with a six-character seal mark
30.2 cm, 11⅞ in.
PROVENANCE
Christie’s Hong Kong, 13th January 1987, lot 529.
HK$ 15,000,000-20,000,000
US$ 1,920,000-2,560,000
Mark
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