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A blue and white bottle vase with dragons and clouds
Jiaqing mark, late Qing dynasty
Molded with a flared rim to the long neck and body of compressed pear form raised on the
flared foot, the walls painted with two dragons facing one another amid clouds and waves set
between a cloud collar band below the rim and a squared S-scroll band along the foot, the
recessed base bearing the six-character mark in seal script and all surfaces except the foot
pad covered with a lustrous celadon-tinged glaze.
11 1/4in (28.5cm) high
$20,000 - 30,000

For a Jiaqing mark and period vase of similar form but decorated with three dragons
contending for a single pearl and shorter in size, see Gugong bowuyuan cang wenwu zhenpin
quanji, 2010, vol. 36 (Qinghua youli hong), cat. no. 143, p. 157 (17.4cm high).

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