A CELADON-GLAZED VASE

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A CELADON-GLAZED VASE
KANGXI

Of baluster shape, molded and carved with two four-clawed scaly dragons rising and coiling amidst fire and cloud scrolls as they grasp at flaming pearls below a Buddhist umbrella and cloud scrolls on the neck, minor foot rim chip, small restored rim chip
17in. (43.2cm.) high

拍品專文

Carved celadon vases of this type appear to be quite rare. For blue and white and copper-red examples painted with similar dragons see R. L. Hobson, The Later Ceramic Wares of China, London, pl. XXX, from the Charles Russell Collection; another illustrated in Kangxi.Yongzheng.Qianlong, Qing Porcelains from the Palace Museum Collection, Hong Kong, 1989, pl. 5; and a Kangxi-marked example in the Percival David Foundation, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, vol. 6, London, 1982, col. pl. 49