GUANGXU SIX-CHARACTER GILT MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1875-1908)

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A GILT-DECORATED BLUE-GROUND BOTTLE VASE
GUANGXU SIX-CHARACTER GILT MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1875-1908)
The body is decorated with two five-clawed dragons contesting a flaming pearl amidst flames and clouds above a band of cresting waves and below a shou character and lotus band on the neck and another dragon at similar pursuit on the waisted neck, all in gilding on a blue ground.
15¼ in. (39 cm.) high

Provenance

Acquired in Washington, D.C., circa 1988.

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Lot Essay

Acquired in Washington DC, circa 1988.
A pair of similarly decorated Guangxu-marked vases, but of slightly smaller size (36.8 cm.), was sold at Christie's New York, 25 March 2011, lot 1579.
Compare, also, the Guangxu-marked vase with similar gilt decoration, but on a mirror-black ground, in the National Palace Museum, illustrated by van Oort, Chinese Porcelain of the 19th and 20th Centuries, The Netherlands, 1977, pl. 93.

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