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PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE COLLECTION

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AN EXTREMELY RARE AND SUPERBLY PAINTED ANHUA-

DECORATED BLUE AND WHITE ‘DRAGON’ STEM BOWL

XUANDE SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF

THE PERIOD (1426-1435)

The exterior of the bowl is superbly painted in brilliant tones of cobalt blue depicting two
ferocious five-clawed dragons, one charging forward, the other looking back, above four
peaks at the cardinal points alternating with four lower peaks, the stem foot decorated
with four further peaks rising above cresting waves, all above a delicately pencilled ground
of rolling waves in softer tones of blue. The interior of the bowl is incised in anhua
decoration with two five-clawed dragons in similar poses as those on the exterior. The
interior centre is inscribed with the reign mark in underglaze blue.
6 in. (15.2 cm.) diam., box

HK$60,000,000-80,000,000 US$7,800,000-10,000,000

PROVENANCE

Sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 28 April 1992, lot 32 (front cover)
Sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 9 October 2007, lot 1552 (front cover)

明宣德 青花海水雙龍紋內暗花龍紋高足盌 雙圈六字楷書款

盌撇口，弧壁，高足中空。通體青花紋飾，淡描海水為地，盌外壁繪兩條矯健五爪龍張牙舞爪、
互相追逐，一條往前奔騰，一條回首呼應，下承八峰江崖海水紋；高足脛部再畫四峰海水紋。
盌內壁暗花飾兩條五爪遊龍，盌心書「大明宣德年製」楷書款。

來源
香港蘇富比，1992 年 4 月 28 日，拍品 32 號（封面）
香港蘇富比，2007 年 10 月 9 日，拍品 1552 號（封面）

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