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QIANLONG SEALMARKS AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)
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A PAIR OF GREEN ENAMEL 'DRAGON' JARS AND COVERS
QIANLONG SEALMARKS AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)
Both of the ovoid bodies decorated with paired, five-clawed dragons amidst flames and clouds, in pursuit of flaming pearls, all between a border of lappets around the base, and a band of the bajixiang between ruyi borders on the shoulders, the cover with a dragon roundel, one cover restored
8¼ in. (21cm.) high (2)
QIANLONG SEALMARKS AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)
Both of the ovoid bodies decorated with paired, five-clawed dragons amidst flames and clouds, in pursuit of flaming pearls, all between a border of lappets around the base, and a band of the bajixiang between ruyi borders on the shoulders, the cover with a dragon roundel, one cover restored
8¼ in. (21cm.) high (2)
Literature
Qianlong jars of this pattern are illustrated in Jenyns, Later Chinese Porcelain, 1951, Pl. XCI, Fig. 2, from the W.W. Winkworth collection, and in Lee, Selected Far Eastern Art in the Yale University Art Gallery, 1970, No's 384 and 385; cf also the jars illustrated in the National Palace Museum: Enamelled Ware of the Ch'ing Dynasty, book II, 1969, Pl. 13, and in Chinese Porcelain: The S.C. Ko Tianminlou Collection, 1987, Pl. 114
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