KANGXI UNDERGLAZE-BLUE SIX-CHARACTER MARK WITHIN A DOUBLE-CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1662-1722)

细节

A BLUE-GROUND POLYCHROME-DECORATED 'DRAGON' BOWL
KANGXI UNDERGLAZE-BLUE SIX-CHARACTER MARK WITHIN A DOUBLE-CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1662-1722)
With gently rounded sides rising steeply to a slightly everted rim, the exterior decorated with two dragons, one in green enamel, the other iron-red, each striding through green, yellow and iron-red flames in pursuit of 'flaming pearls' above a band of overlapping lotus petals, the interior enamelled to the centre with a medallion decorated with a further dragon chasing a flaming pearl, all reserved on a cobalt blue ground and within blue double-line borders
5½ in. (14 cm.) diam.

来源

Property from an Important Asian Collection.
Sotheby's Hong Kong, 23 May 1978, lot 176.

注意事项

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 20% on the buyer's premium.

荣誉呈献

Caroline Allen

查阅状况报告或联络我们查询更多拍品资料

callen@christies.com +44 (0)20 7389 2579

登入

浏览状况报告

拍品专文

This bowl belongs to an intriguing group of Kangxi coloured-ground wares where the fifth claw of the dragon has been obscured by an overglaze enamel, in the present case with black and red enamel. A very similar bowl was sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 1 June 2011, lot 2512. A dish with the same detail is illustrated by John Ayers, Chinese Ceramics in the Baur Collection, vol. 2, Geneva, 1999, p. 37.

A similar Kangxi-marked bowl was sold at Christie's New York, 1 June 1990, lot 287; and another at Christie's London, 1 December 1997, lot 118. Compare a very similar bowl but with a five-clawed dragon, illustrated in Chinese Porcelain: the S.C. Ko Tianminlou Collection, Part II, Hong Kong, 1987, pl. 91.