grand bol en porcelaine Chine, dynastie Qing, marque et époque Kangxi (1662-1722)

les bords évasés sur un court pied droit, l'extérieur à décor en creux de deux dragons émaillés vert parmi des nuages à la poursuite de la perle sacrée émaillée jaune, le pied souligné d'une frise de pétales, marque à six caractères dans un double cercle en bleu sous couverte ; petites égrenures

Collection particulière belge.
Sotheby's London, 26th April 1933, lot 374.
Sydney Moss, London, 1961.
Collection of Stephen D. Winkworth.

Six small chips and flakes to the border rim, the longest 7 mm, minor firing imperfections and a glaze gap (4 x 2 mm) to the outside, iron spots, firing faults and two star cracklings to the glaze inside.
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This bowl belongs to a group of Ming-inspired biscuit wares enamelled with green dragons in pursuit of flaming pearls. Compare a pear-shape vase decorated with a similar scene in green enamel included in the Special Exhibition of Dragon-Motif Porcelain in the National Palace Museum, National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1983, cat. no. 88; a meiping vase from the H.M. Knight collection, sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 21^st May 1980, lot 212; and another sold twice in our Hong Kong rooms, 23^rd May 1978, lot 167, and 17^th May 1988, lot 108, and again at Christie's New York, 26^th March 2010, lot 1393. A pear-shape vase painted with an aubergine and a green dragon chasing yellow and blue-enamelled flaming pearls, with an apocryphal Chenghua reign mark, was sold in our London rooms, 8^th June 1993, lot 84.