PROPERTY FROM A MASSACHUSETTS PRIVATE COLLECTION
AN UNUSUAL LARGE BLACK-GLAZED BLUE AND WHITE FLUTED 'DRAGON' VASE, GUANGXU MARK AND PERIOD
Auction Closed
September 23, 08:35 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
AN UNUSUAL LARGE BLACK-GLAZED BLUE AND WHITE FLUTED 'DRAGON' VASE
GUANGXU MARK AND PERIOD
清光緒 黑釉開光青花蒼龍教子紋鋪首耳海棠式尊 《大清光緒年製》款
the baluster body of flattened quatrefoil section rising from a spreading foot to a flared barbed mouth, two sides painted with a dragon and its young contesting a 'Flaming Pearl' in rich tones of cobalt-blue framed within an octagonal petal-barbed border, a pair of animal masks handles suspending integral rings in blue and white applied to the narrow sides, all reserved on a black-glazed ground, save for the base inscribed with the six-character reign mark in blue
Height 20⅛ in., 51.1 cm
Eldred's, Massachusetts, circa 1969-70.
來源
Eldred's，麻省，約1969至1970年
Two pairs of vases of the same form, also with octagonal bracket-lobed panels and Guangxu marks, are known, but of a smaller size (13cm high), with incised decoration to the panels and applied with green glazes. The first was included in the exhibition Imperial Porcelain of the Late Qing from the Kwan Collection, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 1983, cat. no. 151, and sold at Christie's Singapore, 30th March 1997 and subsequently in their Hong Kong rooms, 27th November 2007, lot 1732; the second pair sold at Christie's New York, 19th September 2007.