A FINE AND VERY RARE CELADON-GLAZED 'DRAGON' MOONFLASK

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A FINE AND VERY RARE CELADON-GLAZED 'DRAGON' MOONFLASK
YONGZHENG FOUR-CHARACTER SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

The flattened globular body carved to each face in low relief with a three-clawed sinuous dragon with a bifurcated tail, wavy mane and open mouth below a long snout, chasing a flaming pearl amidst fire scrolls, the shoulder with a four-pointed cloud collar with ruyi-head silhouette and 'S'-scrolls on the waisted neck, the everted lobed rim with a border of petals beneath the slightly raised lip, all under an even pale celadon glaze pooling around the carving
10 1/2 in. (26.7 cm.) high, stand, box

來源

Dr. Ip Yee, sold in Hong Kong, 19 November 1984, lot 215.
The Property of a European Collector, sold in these Rooms, 20 March 1990, lot 614.

拍品專文

The only closely related example appears to be the celadon moonflask in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Kangxi Yongzheng Qianlong, p. 277, no. 106. For a line drawing of this pattern illustrated by Geng Baocheng, see Ming Qing Ciqi Jianding, Forbidden City Press, 1993, fig. 436, p. 253.

A related moonflask with a bulbous mouth and incised with a full-faced dragon was sold in Hong Kong, 1 November 1999, lot 356.

(US$450,000-580,000)