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    20 - 21 November 2007

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    • A blue and white square 'drago
    Lot 14

    A blue and white square 'dragon' box and cover

    JIAJING SIX CHARACTER MARK

    Price realised

    EUR 21,850

    Estimate

    EUR 10,000 - EUR 12,000

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    A blue and white square 'dragon' box and cover
    Jiajing six character mark
    The top painted with two five-clawed dragons emerging from crested waves and centred by a long peach stem inscribed with a Shou character, the sloping shoulders and straight rim painted to the four sides with a dragon among flaming clouds above a floral scroll, repeated to the base, rim chips to inner rim
    25.4 cm. square, 14.4 cm. high

    Provenance

    Purchased from auction Hugo Helbring, Frankfurt, 12 December 1934, cat. nr. 44, lot 378, pl. 18.

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    Lot Essay

    A very close example to this box and cover, but with a Wanli mark is in the Burrell Collection in Glasgow. See R, Marks, R. Scott, B. Gasson, J.K. Thomson & P Vainker, The Burrell Collection, Collins, London and Glasgow, revised reprint 1984, p. 53, pl. 19.

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