Lot 1684
  • 1684

A fine blue and White "Dragon" Bowl mark and period of Yongzheng

Estimate
300,000 - 400,000 HKD
bidding is closed

Description

of ogee form supported on a short straight foot, painted in rich cobalt-blue tones around the exterior with two ferocious five-clawed dragons in mutual pursuit through ruyi-head cloud scrolls, the interior with central medallion of a dragon writhing among clouds within a doubline border repeated at the rim,  the base inscribed with the six-character mark within a double circle

Provenance

Christie's Hong Kong, 31 March 1992, Lot 600.

Catalogue Note

For a similar bowl from the Scheinman collection, see Born of Earth and Fire, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, 1992, cat.no.88; and for a pair of bowls, see Ch'ing Porcelain from the Wah Kwong Collection, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1973, cat.no.59.