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A RARE WHITE-GLAZED HANDLED JAR
YONGZHENG MARK AND PERIOD
the compressed globular body rising from a slightly splayed
foot to a wide neck, applied to the shoulder with a pair of
dragon handles, each modeled with an arched spine extending
to a bifurcated tail, covered overall with a smooth white glaze,
the base with a six-character mark in underglaze blue
Width 10⅛ in., 25.8 cm
See a closely related example with the handles decorated in
puce enamel, illustrated in The Tsui Museum of Art. Chinese
Ceramics IV. Qing Dynasty, Hong Kong, 1995, cat. no. 161.
$ 30,000-50,000
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