UNDERGLAZE-BLUE CHENGHUA SIX-CHARACTER MARK WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE, KANGXI (1662-1722)

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A BLUE-GROUND MALLET-SHAPED 'DRAGON' VASE
UNDERGLAZE-BLUE CHENGHUA SIX-CHARACTER MARK WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE, KANGXI (1662-1722)
'Pencilled' in deep cobalt blue around the base of the neck with a three-clawed archaistic dragon above rockwork and breaking waves around the base, all on a light cobalt-blue ground stopping neatly above the foot rim, the interior and base glazed white
8 1/8 in. (20.2 cm.) high

Provenance

E. T. Hall Collection, no. 316

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Lot Essay

The decoration on this vase is first painted on the body with underglaze blue then covered with a thin layer of cobalt blue glaze. Compare a guanyinzun vase decorated in the same technique and also bearing a Chenghua mark in the Shanghai Museum, illustrated in Kangxi Porcelain Ware from the Shanghai Museum Collection, Hong Kong, 1998, no. 63, pp. 96-97.

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