A FINE BLUE AND WHITE DOUBLE-GOURD 'DRAGON' VASE
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A FINE BLUE AND WHITE DOUBLE-GOURD 'DRAGON' VASE

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A FINE BLUE AND WHITE DOUBLE-GOURD 'DRAGON' VASE
QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEALMARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)

Finely decorated to each face with confronted dragons descending on either side of a shou medallion, the long sinuous bodies with elaborate streaming scrolls, the tails surrounding a stylised bat medallion, the arched handles joined at the body with a ruyi-head terminal and reserved with flowers on a blue-ground
7 in. (17.8 cm.) high, box

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Previously sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 31 October 1995, lot 469.

A Qianlong-marked flask of this pattern in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, is included in the Illustrated Catalogue of Ching Dynasty Porcelain, pl. 3; and another flask of the same form with gilt decoration on a blue-ground was included in the exhibition, Special Exhibition of K'ang-hsi, Yung-cheng and Ch'ien-lung Porcelain, Taiwan, 1986, illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 78.

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