A FINE AND VERY RARE BLUE AND WHITE 'DRAGON' VASE, HU QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)
A FINE AND VERY RARE BLUE AND WHITE 'DRAGON' VASE, HU QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)

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A FINE AND VERY RARE BLUE AND WHITE 'DRAGON' VASE, HU QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)

Finely painted in vibrant cobalt with one three-clawed dragon and five five-clawed dragons around the globular body reserved against an Indian-lotus meander, flanked by moulded dragon handles, all below a band of lotus lappets, the rim and foot encircled with rolling and crashing wave borders
14 in. (35.6 cm.) high

Lot Essay

Although many Qianlong vases of this form with lotus scroll decoration are recorded, vases with additional dragons are extremely rare, and no other example appears to have been published. Examples decorated with lotus meander include: one in the exhibition of Ch'ing Porcelain from the Wah Kwong Collection, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1973, illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 68; another illustrated by Geng Baochang, Ming Qing Ciqi Jianding, Qingdai Bufen, p. 107, fig. 142; and one in the Shanghai Museum illustrated in Selected Ceramics from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. J.M. Hu, Hong Kong, 1989, p. 62.

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