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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE SOUTH AMERICAN COLLECTION
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A VERY RARE YELLOW AND GREEN-ENAMELED 'DRAGON' incised with finely rendered scales and claws, the dragons on this vase raise
VASE their heads in lively anticipation of grasping the flaming pearl.
JIAQING INCISED SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK AND OF THE
PERIOD (1796-1820) A very similar vase from an English private collection is illustrated by
Marchant in Imperial Chinese Porcelain, Ceramics & Works of Art, London,
The vase is decorated with three incised and green-enameled five-clawed
2013, p. 82, no. 39. See, also, a bottle vase of comparable height to the
dragons writhing amidst clouds in pursuit of flaming pearls on a yellow
present lot, Jiaqing mark and period, decorated with a similar pattern of
ground, all between bands of waves and stylized jewels.
incised green-enameled dragons on a yellow ground, in the National Palace
127 in. (32.5 cm.) Museum, Taipei, illustrated by J. Ayers and M. Sato in Ceramic Art of the
World, Volume 15, Ch’ing Dynasty, Tokyo, 1983, p. 184, no. 236.
$150,000-250,000

南美私人珍藏
PROVENANCE:
Private collection, Paraguay. 清嘉慶 黃地綠彩龍紋長頸瓶 六字篆書刻款
Acquired directly from the above by the present owner.
來源:
The most prestigious decorative motif seen in the three-dimensional arts 私人珍藏, 巴拉圭。
made for the Chinese imperial court in the Qing dynasty is the Imperial 現藏家直接得自上述藏家。
dragon - the symbol of the Son of Heaven, the Emperor himself. Carefully

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