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A Rare Turquoise-Glazed Bottle Vase

KANGXI

细节

A Rare Turquoise-Glazed Bottle Vase
Kangxi
Applied with a lively bearded dragon with dark purple horn striding around the shoulder of the globular body, its long, narrow tail extending up the side of the tall, slender neck, covered overall with a bright turquoise glaze suffused with a fine network of crackle and continuing over the molded mouth rim, the base covered with a clear glaze
165/8in. (42.2cm.) high

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拍品专文

No other comparable vase appears to have been published. However, the application of a dragon to the neck or shoulder of a vase, usually a bottle vase, appears to have been a design concept of the Kangxi period. See three smaller famille verte-decorated vases of different bottle shape illustrated by E. Zimmermann, Chinesisches Porzellan, Leipzig, 1923, vol. II, pl. 110 (top). A later version of this type in monochrome can be seen in the Yongzheng-marked globular bottle vase covered overall with a coral glaze from the collection of S.D. Winkworth included in the International Exhibition of Chinese Art, London, 1935-36, no. 2725 and later sold in our London rooms, 6 December 1993, lot 97.