A 'DEHUA' CANDLESTICK QING DYNASTY, KANGXI PERIOD

Estimate

1,000 - 2,000 USD

bidding is closed

Description

ceramics

in the form of a dragon coiling around a columnar standard raised on three splayed mask-and-paw feet, surmounted by a leaf-form drip pan incised with lines simulating the veins

Provenance

Sotheby's London, 20th July 1976, lot 228.

Catalogue Note

A similar example is illustrated in P.J. Donnelly, Blanc de Chine, London, 1969, pl. 57B.