A FINE AND VERY RARE BLUE AND IRON-RED WINE WARMER

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A FINE AND VERY RARE BLUE AND IRON-RED WINE WARMER
BLACK ENAMEL YONGZHENG SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

Finely painted around the globular body with two iron-red scaly five-clawed dragons chasing flaming pearls amid cloud scrolls between lappets encircling the base and a band of dots around the neck, divided by two iron-red mock monster-mask handles, the small squat pear-shaped wine pot supported on a tall cylinder, the body with matching decoration, the slightly curved spout opposite the thin looped handles painted with iron-red bats in flight amid further cloud scrolls, the cylindrical support similarly decorated, the small circular cover surmounted by a lotus bud painted knop--7 5/8 in. (19.3cm.) high, box

Lot Essay

Wine warmers of this type are extremely rare, however an unmarked Qianong example is included in this sale as lot 828.

Another example with different decoration in the Metropolitan Museum of Art is illustrated by Warren Cox, The Book of Pottery and Porcelain, vol. II, fig. 872

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