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A PAIR OF BLUE AND WHITE ‘DRAGON’ BOWLS A LARGE SET OF UNDERGLAZE-BLUE, IRON-RED AND GILT
Jiaqing seal marks and of the period DECORATED DISHES
Each hemispherical bowl finely painted to the interior in a pencil-drawn 18th century
style with two writhing five-clawed dragons circling a flaming pearl and Each decorated en-suite with floral sprays, the flattened rim with
amongst sparse clouds, raised on a short foot rim. further sprigs and scrolled bands. The largest: 23cm (9in) diam. (66).
Each: 9.6cm (3 3/4in) diam. (3).
£2,000 - 4,000
£5,000 - 8,000 CNY17,000 - 34,000 HK$20,000 - 40,000
CNY43,000 - 69,000 HK$50,000 - 80,000
Provenance
Provenance Martin Månsson (1880-1952), and thence by descent.
R & G McPherson Antiques London (label)
Sotheby Parke Bernet, Hong Kong, 1 & 2 December 1977, lot 626
(label), from a set of eight cups

The present lot comes with a marked copy of the Sotheby Parke Bernet
catalogue: ‘Fine Nineteenth Century Chinese Porcelain, Earlier Ceramics,
Furniture, Works of Art and Reference books’ Thursday 1 December
1977 & Friday 2 December 1977.

Compare with a much smaller cup of identical design, Yongzheng six-
character mark and of the period, for the prototype of this ware, sold in
our New Bond Street salerooms, 6 November 2014, lot 239.

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