Live Auction 2369Important Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art
A YELLOW-GROUND BLUE AND WHITE 'DRAGON' BOWL
Lot 1489THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN 

A YELLOW-GROUND BLUE AND WHITE 'DRAGON' BOWL

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HKD 240,000

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A YELLOW-GROUND BLUE AND WHITE 'DRAGON' BOWL
KANGXI SIX-CHARACTER MARK WITHIN DOUBLE CIRCLES AND OF THE PERIOD (1662-1722)

The bowl well painted in underglaze-glue around the exterior with two sinuous dragons striding amidst clouds and flames, divided by two shaped cartouches containing the characters fu, 'prosperity', and shou, 'longevity', supported on lingzhi sprigs, all above a band of overlapping lotus petals at the foot and against a lemon-yellow enamelled ground, the interiors with a central medallion depicting a single leaping dragon on a yellow-ground
5 1/8 in. (13 cm.) diam., stand, box

Specialist note

Bowls of this pattern have been sold at auction, including one from the Scheinman Collection, sold in our New York Rooms, 23 March 1995, lot 114; and two others in these Rooms, 29 April 2002, lot 635 and 28 November 2006, lot 1532. Cf. also a Kangxi-marked blue and white bowl of this pattern, but lacking the yellow ground, illustrated in Kangxi Porcelain Wares from the Shanghai Museum Collection, Hong Kong 1998, pl. 18; while another is illustrated by G. Lang, The Powell-Cotton Collection of Chinese Ceramics, Kent, 1988, pl. 82, together with a Qianlong version in blue on yellow, pl. 91.