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A LARGE CHINESE COPPER-RED ‘FIVE DRAGON’ VASE
18 CENTURY
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The pear-shaped body with a tall tapering neck, decorated with
scaly five-clawed dragons amidst clouds and flames, their eyes
picked out in underglaze blue, all above breaking waves, the
short foot painted with a continuous leaf scroll, with gilt-metal
mounts to the neck and foot, the neck reduced and the base
lacking, 55cm overall.
£8,000-12,000
Provenance: Lionel de Rothschild (1882-1942), Edmund de
Rothschild (1916-2009), the Trustees of Exbury House.
Cf. J Ayers, Chinese and Japanese Works of Art in the Collection of
Her Majesty the Queen, vol.I, p.215, no.449 for a smaller related
vase, but with a single dragon.
十八世紀 釉裡紅趕珠龍紋瓶
來源：Lionel de Rothschild（1882-1942）舊藏，Edmund de
Rothschild（1916-2009），英國漢普郡艾斯博瑞莊園。
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