A FINE GREEN-ENAMELLED DRAGON JAR
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A FINE GREEN-ENAMELLED DRAGON JAR

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A FINE GREEN-ENAMELLED DRAGON JAR
QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)

Finely painted in underglaze-blue and translucent overglaze-green enamel with two sinuous dragons striding through clouds and flames in pursuit of 'flaming pearls', the shoulder of the jar decorated with the bajixiang enclosed by ruyi and spiral bands, and the base encircled with lappets
8 1/4 in. (21 cm.) high, box

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Previously sold in Hong Kong, 3 May 1994, lot 263.

Cf. other Qianlong vases of this pattern, one from the W. W. Winkworth Collection, illustrated by S. Jenyns, Later Chinese Porcelain, pl. XCI, fig. 2; and another by S. Lee, Selected Far Eastern Art in the Yale University Art Gallery, no. 384, together with a second jar with a cylindrical cover, no. 385. Other similar jars with covers include one from the National Palace Museum, Taiwan, illustrated in Enamelled Ware of the Ch'ing Dynasty, Book II, pl. 13; and another illustrated in Chinese Porcelain, The S. C. Ko Tianminlou Collection, pl. 114, where the panoramic view of the design is also shown, pp. 156-7.