A FINE 'GREEN DRAGON' BALUSTER JAR AND COVER, delicatly pencilled with underglaze-blue outlines, and washed over in even translucent green enamel on the broad body, with two five-clawed ferocious dragons striding in mutual pursuit of flaming pearls amongst fire and cloud-scrolls, between bands of Buddhistic emblems and ruyi around the shoulder and rectangular lappets around the foot, the flat-topped cover with a single coiled dragon, six character Jiaqing seal mark and of the period

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A FINE 'GREEN DRAGON' BALUSTER JAR AND COVER, delicatly pencilled with underglaze-blue outlines, and washed over in even translucent green enamel on the broad body, with two five-clawed ferocious dragons striding in mutual pursuit of flaming pearls amongst fire and cloud-scrolls, between bands of Buddhistic emblems and ruyi around the shoulder and rectangular lappets around the foot, the flat-topped cover with a single coiled dragon, six character Jiaqing seal mark and of the period
20.8cm. high

Lot Essay

cf. a similar jar but with a Qianlong seal mark in the National Palace Museum, Taiwan, included in the Enamelled Ware of the Qing Dynasty, Catalogue, Book II, pl. 13

A similar Jiaqing jar from the Edward T. Chow Collection was sold in Hong Kong, 19 may 1981, lot 538

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