A FINELY ENAMELED IRON-RED-DECORATED SGRAFFITO-GROUND 'DRAGON AND PHOENIX' BOWL AND A COVER

QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARKS IN IRON RED AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)

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A FINELY ENAMELED IRON-RED-DECORATED SGRAFFITO-GROUND 'DRAGON AND PHOENIX' BOWL AND A COVER
QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARKS IN IRON RED AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)
The bowl is enameled with a dragon chasing a flaming pearl on one side and a phoenix on the other, both amidst ruyi-form clouds and on a white-enameled sgraffito ground incised with meandering lotus scroll. The cover is decorated with two dragons chasing flaming pearls amidst clouds and flames on a sgraffito ground incised with waves, the interior and base covered with an even turquoise enamel.
4 ¼ in. (10.7 cm.) diam.

Provenance

Mrs. Henry J. Bernheim Collection.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, accessioned in 1945.

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Lot Essay

A similar covered bowl decorated with dragon and phoenix design on an incised ground of lotus scrolls, in the collection of the Palace Museum, Beijing, is illustrated in Kangxi Yongzheng Qianlong, Qing Porcelain from the Palace Museum Collection, Hong Kong, 1995, p. 332.

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