An Unusual Large Pale Blue-Glazed Carved Vase

18TH/19TH CENTURY

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An Unusual Large Pale Blue-Glazed Carved Vase
18th/19th Century
The high-shouldered body well-carved with an allover design of a five-clawed dragon pursuing a large flaming pearl amidst clouds above a another dragon rising from the band of froth-capped waves at the base, with a narrow band of ruyi heads below the lipped rim, all under a glaze of very pale blue tone
27¾in. (69.5cm.) high

Literature

Collection of Chinese and Other Far Eastern Art, Yamanaka & Company, Inc., 1943, no. 1245, where the vase was dated to the Kangxi period.

Lot Essay

The color of this glaze is reminiscent of a qingbai glaze, but the decoration and the manner in which it is carved is 18th century in style, such as the carved decoration of dragons and clouds on a large jar of Yongzheng date illustrated in Zhongguo meishu quanji; Gongyi meishu bian; Taoci (The Great Treasury of Chinese Fine Arts; Arts and Crafts; Ceramics), Shanghai, 1988, vol. 3, p. 162, no. 291.

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