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PROPERTY FROM AN ASIAN PRIVATE COLLECTION PROPERTY FROM A CANADIAN PRIVATE COLLECTION 清道光 綠彩五龍戲珠紋長頸瓶
A YELLOW-GROUND AND GREEN-ENAMELED A VERY RARE GREEN-ENAMELED ‘DRAGON’ 《大清道光年製》款
‘DRAGON’ BOWL BOTTLE VASE
SEAL MARK AND PERIOD OF DAOGUANG SEAL MARK AND PERIOD OF DAOGUANG 來源
the interior with a shou character, the base with a six- the base with a six-character seal mark in iron red P. Franklin 醫生收藏，得於1940年代末至1950年代之
character seal mark in underglaze blue Height 11 in., 27.9 cm 間 (傳)
Diameter 4 in., 10.2 cm
PROVENANCE
PROVENANCE Collection of Dr. P. Franklin, acquired between the late 1940s
Berlin Private Collection. and 1950s (by repute).
This elegantly shaped vase with its green-enameled dragon
⊖ $ 5,000-7,000 motif represents a particularly rare example of Daoguang
period (1821-1850) imperial porcelain. The pattern was
清道光 黃地綠彩雲龍趕珠紋盌 first created during the Chenghua period (1465-1487) and
remained popular throughout the Ming (1368-1644) and Qing
360 《大清道光年製》款 (1644-1911) dynasties. Ming dynasty ceramicists typically
incised the dragons on the reserved biscuit clay before
enameling the animals in green; Qing ceramicists, on the
來源 other hand, painted the enameled dragons on top of a layer
柏林私人收藏 of transparent glaze. Among the various types of ‘green
dragon’ wares produced over the centuries, such as jars,
bowls and dishes, there is only one other vase known to exist,
which also bears a Daoguang seal mark and is of the period.
That vase, formerly in the Yiqingge Collection, is almost
identical to the present example, and was sold at Christie’s
Hong Kong, 29th May 2013, lot 2028. Another closely related
Daoguang vase of the same form and design, but painted
in black enamel, in the collection of the Seikadō Bunko Art
Museum, Tokyo, was included in the exhibition Seikadō zō
Shinchō tōji. Keitokuchin kanyō no bi [Qing dynasty porcelain
collected in the Seikado. Beauty of Jingdezhen imperial kilns],
Tokyo, 2006, cat. no. 75.
361 From the Kangxi period (1662-1722) onwards, green-
enameled dragons chasing 'Flaming Pearls,' painted with
underglaze-blue outlines and black details, can be found
PROPERTY FROM AN ASIAN PRIVATE COLLECTION on covered jars; a Daoguang mark and period example is
A GREEN AND BLACK-ENAMELED ‘DRAGON’ preserved in the National Palace Museum, Taipei (accession
DISH no. gu-ci-008825). Another jar of this type and period,
SEAL MARK AND PERIOD OF DAOGUANG exhibited in the Roemer Museum, Hildesheim, in 1899, was
sold in these rooms, 21st March 2018, lot 549; and a pair
the based with a six-character seal mark in underglaze blue of such jars was sold in the same rooms, 18th September
Diameter 7 in., 17.6 cm 2007, lot 283. For a Kangxi precedent of this design see a
jar in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Wang Liying,
PROVENANCE ed., Gugong Bowuyuan cang wenwu zhenpin quanji. Wucai,
Christie’s South Kensington, 7th November 2008, lot 214. doucai / The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace
Museum. Porcelains in Polychrome and Contrasting Colours,
⊖ $ 5,000-7,000 Hong Kong, 1999, pl. 190.
⊖ $ 50,000-70,000
清道光 綠彩雲龍趕珠紋盤
《大清道光年製》款

來源
南肯辛頓佳士得2008年11月7日，
編號214

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