THE PROPERTY OF A LADY
A FINE AND VERY RARE APPLE-GREEN-GLAZED CARVED LANTERN VASE, the ovoid body with a broad waisted neck, crisply carved with a sinuous five-clawed dragon looking down towards a similar dragon, each with finely-detailed scales, claws and features, amidst clouds and fire-scrolls, above breaking waves around the base, all under an even bright green glaze,

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A FINE AND VERY RARE APPLE-GREEN-GLAZED CARVED LANTERN VASE, the ovoid body with a broad waisted neck, crisply carved with a sinuous five-clawed dragon looking down towards a similar dragon, each with finely-detailed scales, claws and features, amidst clouds and fire-scrolls, above breaking waves around the base, all under an even bright green glaze,

Impressed Qianlong seal mark and of the period
44.6cm. high

Lot Essay

No other vase of this form and decoration appears to have been recorded, although related examples have been published

A white-glazed bottle vase with a carved dragon design from the S.C. Ko Tianminlou Collection, is illustrated in the Catalogue, vol.I, pl.135. A celadon-glazed globular vase with a very similar design, but without a reign mark, from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, is illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, Kodansha Series, vol.11, col.pl.29; another is illustrated by Bushell, Oriental Ceramic Art, fig.183 . Compare also, the pale blue-glazed bottle vase from The Palace Museum, is illustrated in Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong, p.462, pl.144, and the vase without a mark, sold in Hong Kong, 15 May 1990, lot 77. Cf. also, the Yongzheng period jar under a pale blue glaze illustrated in Zhongguo Meishu Quanji, Ceramics, vol.3, p.
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