A VERY RARE CELADON-GLAZED MOULDED 'DRAGON' BOTTLE VASE, LAIFUZUN

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A VERY RARE CELADON-GLAZED MOULDED 'DRAGON' BOTTLE VASE, LAIFUZUN
KANGXI SIX-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

Of ovoid shape with ringed flaring neck, the lower body moulded in shallow relief with two chilong ascending from breaking waves, all under a fine and even pale celadon glaze thinning over the extremities 7 5/8 in. (19 cm.) high, box

Literature

The Tsui Museum of Art, 1991, pl. 124.
The Tsui Museum of Art, Chinese Ceramics, vol. IV, pl. 3.

Exhibited

Splendour of the Qing Dynasty, Joint exhibition by the Urban Council, and the Min Chiu Society, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1995/1996, Catalogue, pl. 208.

Lot Essay

A similar vase from the Palace Museum, Beijing, is illustrated in Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong, p. 146, col. pl. 129 and Zhongguo Meishu Quanji, p. 135, col. pl. 157. Compare also the Chenghua-marked Kangxi vase of this form and decoration under a bluish-green glaze from the British Museum illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, Kodansha Series, vol. 5, fig. 231. The shape is similar to the 'three-string' vase under a peachbloom glaze offered in the present sale as lot 557.

(US$90,000-120,000)

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