A FINE GREEN AND YELLOW-ENAMELLED 'DRAGON' BOWL

YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARK WITHIN DOUBLE-CIRCLES AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735)

Details

A FINE GREEN AND YELLOW-ENAMELLED 'DRAGON' BOWL
YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARK WITHIN DOUBLE-CIRCLES AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735)
Thinly potted, incised and enamelled green with a striding dragon with its head turned to its companion dragon following behind, divided by 'flaming pearls', admist flames and cloud scrolls, divided above by a narrow band of green below scrolling clouds under the slightly everted mouth rim, against a vibrant yellow enamel ground, supported on a low foot ring
5 5/8 in. (14.2 cm.) diam., wood stand, box

Provenance

Previously sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 13 January 1987, lot 478
Greenwald Collection, no. 64

Literature

Gerald M. Greenwald, The Greenwald Collection, Two Thousand Years of Chinese Ceramics, 1996, Catalogue, no. 64

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Lot Essay

There appear to be two groups of bowls of this pattern: the first are those with large sized dragons providing a dense pattern of green enamel as exemplified by the present bowl and two similar bowls, the first formerly from the Constantinidi Collection, illustrated by S. Jenyns, Later Chinese Porcelain, Faber and Faber, 1971, pl. LX1X, no. 4; and the other illustrated in Chinese Porcelain - The S.C. Ko Tianminlou Collection, Part II, Hong Kong, 1987, pl. 97. The second type depicts slender dragons with wispy flames, thereby showing a more prominent yellow ground, cf., the pair of bowls in the British Rail Pension Fund, sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 26 April 2004, lot 958; and another pair in the T.Y. Chao Private and Family Trust Collections, sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 8 October 1990, lot 454.

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