A BLUE AND WHITE 'FIVE DRAGON' VASE

QIANLONG SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)

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A BLUE AND WHITE 'FIVE DRAGON' VASE
QIANLONG SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)
The vase with a compressed globular body, supported on a slightly spreading foot and tapering to a thick cylindrical neck, painted with five sinuous,scaly, five-clawed dragons in pursuit of a flaming pearl, all amidst vaporous clouds and flames, with a band of crashing waves above the foot and a key-fret border, all below a band of ruyi-heads at the mouth rim
13¾ in. (35 cm.) high

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Compare to vases of similar shape in the Victoria and Albert Museum, illustrated by Rose Kerr, Chinese Ceramics: Porcelain of the Qing Dynasty 1644-1911, London, 2000, pl. 25. See also a similarly shaped teadust-glazed vase, sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 8 October 1990, lot 351.