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PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED SWISS COLLECTION 清乾隆 黃地青花穿花龍紋天球瓶
A FINE AND MAGNIFICENT LEMON-YELLOW 《大清乾隆年製》款
AND UNDERGLAZE-BLUE ‘DRAGON’ VASE, 來源：
TIANQIUPING
瑞士收藏，自1970年代始，此後家族傳承
SEAL MARK AND PERIOD OF QIANLONG
robustly potted with a globular body rising to a cylindrical
neck, the body superbly painted in rich cobalt-blue tones
simulating the ‘heaped and piled’ effect, depicting a pair of
mighty ferocious dragons, with large bulging eyes beneath
heavy brows and flaring nostrils flanked by long curly whiskers,
their mouths opened revealing menacing teeth, surmounted
by prominent long horns swept back behind a billowing mane,
their undulating scaly bodies terminating in powerful muscular
limbs and sharp claws, the dominant dragon depicted three-
clawed and its subordinate five-clawed, striding amidst a
continuous leafy meander bearing large stylised lotus blooms
in various orientations, all below a band of pendent ruyi-heads,
the rim and base bordered with a band enclosing crashing
tumultuous waves against a thin, translucent, pale turquoise
wash, all reserved against a brilliant lemon-yellow ground
continuing over the rim into the interior, the base similarly
enamelled yellow save for the unglazed footring and a white
square in the centre inscribed in underglaze blue with a six-
character seal mark
60.8 cm, 23⅞ in.
PROVENANCE
A Swiss collection since the 1970s, thence by descent.

HK$ 30,000,000-40,000,000
US$ 3,840,000-5,120,000

Mark

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