A Blue and White Dragon Vase

KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)

Details

A Blue and White Dragon Vase
Kangxi period (1662-1722)
The attenuated ovoid body well painted with two four-clawed dragons leaping vertically amidst flames in pursuit of flaming pearls, below bands of herringbone, scrolls and dots at the base of the neck which rises to a wide mouth with flaring rim
10 3/4in. (27.3cm.) high
Falk Collection no. 264.

Provenance

John Sparks, London, July 1937, Paul Baerwald Collection.

Exhibited

Chinese Ceramics from the Prehistoric Period through Ch'ien Lung, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum, 1952, no. 368.
Dragons in Chinese Art, China House Gallery, China Institute in America, New York, 1972, pl. 56.
The Auspicious Dragon in Chinese Decorative Arts, Katonah, New York, Katonah Gallery, 1978, no. 56.

Lot Essay

Compare the Kangxi-marked vase with straight neck painted with a similar vertically leaping dragon from the collection of Steven Junkunc III, illustrated in Chinese Ceramics from the Prehistoric Period through Ch'ien Lung, Los Angeles County Museum, 1952, no. 369, and later sold in these rooms 21 September 1995, lot 216.

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