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361 A RARE YELLOW- 清康熙 黃地綠彩青花雲龍戲珠紋罐
GROUND GREEN- 《大明成化年製》仿款
ENAMELED BLUE
AND WHITE OVOID
‘DRAGON’ VASE

Qing Dynasty, Kangxi Period
the rounded sides flaring to a short waisted The palette on the present vase is unusual. A 來源
neck with lipped rim, the exterior with a large yellow-ground blue and white vase similarly Jan Van Beers，倫敦，2005年
underglaze-blue Ming-style four-clawed frontal decorated but of meiping form, from the
dragon in pursuit of a ‘flaming pearl’ with Salting Collection, in the Victoria and Albert
four further striding dragons each chasing a Museum is illustrated in W. B. Honey, The
‘flaming pearl’ amid bright green-enameled Victoria and Albert Museum Department of
stylized clouds, the shoulder with a narrow Ceramics, Chinese Porcelain Periods of K’ang
band of classic scroll beneath a ruyi-head Hsi Yung Cheng and Ch’ien Lung, London,
border encircling the neck in cobalt blue, 1927, pl. 45. A related vase, also of meiping
all against a translucent yellow ground, the form with an apocryphal Chenghua mark, sold
interior and base white-glazed, the base with in our Hong Kong rooms, 11th November 1982,
an apocryphal six-character Chenghua mark, lot 724.
coll. no. 1453
Height 13 in., 33 cm

PROVENANCE
Jan Van Beers, London, 2005.
$ 15,000-25,000

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