UNDERGLAZE BLUE QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEALMARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-95)

Details

A BLUE AND WHITE OGEE-FORM 'DRAGON' BOWL
UNDERGLAZE BLUE QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEALMARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-95)
Painted around the exterior with two striding five-clawed dragons amongst clouds, the interior with a writhing dragon within a medallion
6½ in. (16.7 cm.) diam.

Provenance

Sotheby's London, 7 December 1995, lot 165

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Lot Essay

Compare a similar Qianlong bowl of this design in the Roemer Museum, Hildesheim and illustrated in Ulrich Wiesner, Chinesisches Porzellan, Mainz and Rhein, 1981, pl.47.
Bowls of this type and design are generally found from the Qing dynasty with different reign marks.
Two similar examples were sold in Sotheby's London, 13 November 2002, lots 125 and 126.

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