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A RARE WHITE-GLAZED HANDLED JAR YONGZHENG MARK AND PERIOD
Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 USD
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Description
- Porcelain
- Width 10 1/8 in., 25.8 cm
the compressed globular body rising from a slightly splayed foot to a wide neck, applied to the shoulder with a pair of dragon handles, each modeled with an arched spine extending to a bifurcated tail, covered overall with a smooth white glaze, the base with a six-character mark in underglaze blue
Catalogue Note
See a closely related example with the handles decorated in puce enamel, illustrated in The Tsui Museum of Art. Chinese Ceramics IV. Qing Dynasty, Hong Kong, 1995, cat. no. 161.