A FINE PAIR OF GREEN-ENAMELLED YELLOW-GROUND 'DRAGON' BOWLS
A FINE PAIR OF GREEN-ENAMELLED YELLOW-GROUND 'DRAGON' BOWLS

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A FINE PAIR OF GREEN-ENAMELLED YELLOW-GROUND 'DRAGON' BOWLS
ENCIRCLED YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARKS AND OF THE PERIOD

Each with deep rounded sides rising to a slightly flared rim, finely incised and decorated on the exterior in bright green enamel with a pair of sinuous, five-clawed dragons in mutual pursuit of flaming pearls, surrounded by wispy clouds and flames, below a band of conjoined ruyi-heads around the rim, all against an opaque lemon-yellow ground, the interior glazed white
5 1/2 in. (14 cm.) diam. (2)
來源
The British Rail Pension Fund, sold in Hong Kong, 16 May 1989, lot 80

拍品專文

Previously sold in Hong Kong, 29 November 1976, lot 578.

Yongzheng bowls of this pattern have been published: one previously from the Constantinidi Collection, is illustrated by S. Jenyns, Later Chinese Porcelain, 1971, pl. LXIX, fig. 4; another example is illustrated by G. Lang, The Powell-Cotton Collction of Chinese Ceramics, 1988, no. 83; in Chinese Porcelain, The S. C. Ko Tianminlou Collection, pl. 97; one was included in the Min Chiu Society exhibition, Splendour of the Qing Dynasty, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1992, and is illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 149; another from the collection of Lord Kitchener was included in the National Gallery of Victoria Exhibition of a Hundred Treasures, 1972, illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 116; and a pair was exhibited in the Hong Kong Museum of Art, Ming and Ch'ing Porcelain from the Collection of the T. Y. Chao Family Foundation, 1972, illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 72, and sold in these Rooms, 8 October 1990, lot 454. These bowls have also been sold at auction in our New York Rooms, a pair sold, 21 March 1997, lot 430, and a single bowl, 16 September 1998, lot 377.

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