Property from Various Owners
A blue and white porcelain tazza
Qianlong mark and period
The unadorned interior of the shallow offering dish surrounded by an everted edge with a rinceau along the exterior, the wide sloping foot decorated with an intricate tableau of a writhing five-clawed dragon vying for a flaming pearl amid stylized tufts of smoke and clouds above a churning sea with a leaping carp and three lithe sprigs of water plants, the glazed interior with horizontal six-character mark in seal-script.
9in (23cm) diameter
The unadorned interior of the shallow offering dish surrounded by an everted edge with a rinceau along the exterior, the wide sloping foot decorated with an intricate tableau of a writhing five-clawed dragon vying for a flaming pearl amid stylized tufts of smoke and clouds above a churning sea with a leaping carp and three lithe sprigs of water plants, the glazed interior with horizontal six-character mark in seal-script.
9in (23cm) diameter
Sold for
US$ 27,500
inc. premium
Footnotes
- Nearly identical examples were sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong in their sale of April 30th, 1996 as lot 437 as well as on October 5th of this year as lot 2048. See also a Kangxi-era prototype in the collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei, published in Masterworks of Chinese Porcelain in the National Palace Museum (supplement), Taipei, 1973, p. 39.
Category: Asian Art
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