A TALL TURQUOISE-GLAZED INCISED BALUSTER VASE
18TH/19TH CENTURY
The high-shouldered tapering body spreading at the foot and incised with two scaly, four-clawed dragons contesting a flaming pearl amidst clouds and flames, one dragon descending from the trumpet neck, covered inside and out with a glaze of deep turquoise tone, the base similarly glazed
19 in. (48.3 cm.) high
Lot Essay
See a similar vase, dated to the Qianlong period, illustrated by S. W. Bushell, Oriental Ceramic Art - Illustrated by Examples from the Collection of W. T. Walters, New York, 1980 ed., p. 47, fig. 76.