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PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN Similar examples include one illustrated in Beauty 清乾隆 青花趕珠游龍供盤
of Ceramics, vol.3: Blue and White Porcelain,
A BLUE AND WHITE ‘DRAGON’ 《大清乾隆年製》款
Taipei, 1993, pl. 153, and another sold in our New
TAZZA
York rooms, 22nd March 1999, lot 395. For earlier
SEAL MARK AND PERIOD OF prototypes, see a Kangxi reign-marked tazza in
QIANLONG the National Palace Museum, Taipei, included
in the Illustrated Catalogue of Ch’ing Dynasty
of circular form with shallow straight sides
Porcelain in the National Palace Museum, Taipei,
supported on a tall splayed hollow stem,
vol. 1, 1980, pl. 15, and a Yongzheng example sold
decorated around the sides with a band of
in these rooms, 16th May 1989, lot 249.
interlinked foliate strapwork within line borders,
the stem with a five-clawed dragon depicted
striding in pursuit of the ‘flaming pearl’ above
waves breaking on jagged rockwork, the scene
further rendered with a fish and foliage, the
interior of the stem inscribed in underglaze blue
with a horizontal six-character seal mark
22.8 cm, 9 in.
HK$ 500,000-700,000
US$ 64,000-90,000 Mark

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