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PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED NEW YORK PRIVATE COLLECTION
AN IRON-RED-DECORATED 'DRAGON' CUP
XIANFENG SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1851-1861)
Details
AN IRON-RED-DECORATED 'DRAGON' CUP
XIANFENG SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1851-1861)
The cup is finely decorated on the exterior in iron-red with two five-clawed dragons, one with head turned backwards, racing between clouds above a band of waves, all between double blue-line borders.
2 3/8 in. (6 cm.) diam.
XIANFENG SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1851-1861)
The cup is finely decorated on the exterior in iron-red with two five-clawed dragons, one with head turned backwards, racing between clouds above a band of waves, all between double blue-line borders.
2 3/8 in. (6 cm.) diam.
Provenance
Simon Kwan Collection, by 1983.
S. Marchant & Son, London, 2007.
S. Marchant & Son, London, 2007.
Literature
Imperial Porcelain of Late Qing from the Kwan Collection, Hong Kong, 1983, no. 87b, p. 97 (part).
S. Marchant & Son, Recent Acquisitions 2007, London, no. 25, p. 48.
S. Marchant & Son, Recent Acquisitions 2007, London, no. 25, p. 48.
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Vicki Paloympis (潘薇琦)
Head of Department, VP, Specialist