Live Auction 2369Important Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art
A FINE GREEN-GROUND AUBERGINE 'DRAGON' BOWL
Lot 1488THE PROPERTY OF A EUROPEAN COLLECTOR

A FINE GREEN-GROUND AUBERGINE 'DRAGON' BOWL

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A FINE GREEN-GROUND AUBERGINE 'DRAGON' BOWL
QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)

With flared rim and straight foot, the exterior finely incised with two dragons among cloud-flames in pursuit of flaming pearls over waves, the decoration picked out in rich aubergine reserved against the translucent green ground.
4 3/8in. (11cm.) diam., box

Edward T. Chow Collection, sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 19 May 1981, lot 587

Sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 30 April 1996, lot 522

Specialist note

Previously sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 19 May 1981, lot 587, again sold in the same rooms, 30 April 1996, lot 522.

Another Qianlong bowl of this design was included in the Special Exhibition of Dragon-Motif Porcelain in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1983, no.75; one from the Reemtsma collection was included in the exhibition Tausend Jahre Chinesische Keramik, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, 1974, no.228