Property of an English Lady and Gentleman
An inscribed blue and white 'dragon' vase, 17th / 18th century
Auction Closed
November 6, 03:25 PM GMT
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
with a fourteen-character poem reading yise xinghua hong shili, zhuangyuan guiqu ma ru fei (a field of blossoming red apricot flowers prompts the zhuangyuan to make his horse gallop even faster on his way home)
Height 32 cm, 12⅝ in.
Compare a related vase with a floral design in the H. J. Oppenheim collection, illustrated in R. L. Hobson, C. B. Bernard Rackham and William King, Chinese Ceramics in Private Collections, London, 1931, pl. 139.
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