Lot Essay
Sold in our London Rooms, 6 December 1993, the Property from a European Collection.
Compare the very similar turquoise-glazed example from the Beijing Palace Museum, illustrated in Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong, p. 455, pl. 137 together with a a comparable dragon on a large celadon-glazed bottle vase p. ???, pl. ???.
Related examples include a white-glazed bottle vase with a carved dragon design from the S.C. Ko Tianminlou Collection illustrated in the Catalogue, vol. I, pl. 135. A celadon-glazed globular vase with a very similar design, but without a reign mark, from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, is illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, Kodansha Series, vol. 11, col. pl. 29; another is illustrated by Bushell, Oriental Ceramic Art, fig. 183. Compare also the vase without a mark, sold in Hong Kong, 15 May 1990, lot 77. Cf. also, the Yongzheng period jar under a pale blue glaze illustrated in Zhongguo Meishu Quanji, Ceramics, vol. 3, p. 162.
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Another example formerly part of the Fonthill Heirlooms sold in our London Rooms, ???? 1971, lot ???.
(US$200,000-230,000)
Compare the very similar turquoise-glazed example from the Beijing Palace Museum, illustrated in Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong, p. 455, pl. 137 together with a a comparable dragon on a large celadon-glazed bottle vase p. ???, pl. ???.
Related examples include a white-glazed bottle vase with a carved dragon design from the S.C. Ko Tianminlou Collection illustrated in the Catalogue, vol. I, pl. 135. A celadon-glazed globular vase with a very similar design, but without a reign mark, from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, is illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, Kodansha Series, vol. 11, col. pl. 29; another is illustrated by Bushell, Oriental Ceramic Art, fig. 183. Compare also the vase without a mark, sold in Hong Kong, 15 May 1990, lot 77. Cf. also, the Yongzheng period jar under a pale blue glaze illustrated in Zhongguo Meishu Quanji, Ceramics, vol. 3, p. 162.
ASK CHI fan to look up the last example,
Another example formerly part of the Fonthill Heirlooms sold in our London Rooms, ???? 1971, lot ???.
(US$200,000-230,000)