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A rare large gilt 'mirror-black' vase, tianqiuping 18th/19th century
13 May 2010, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £4,560 inc. premium
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18th/19th century
Of compressed globular form with high shoulders rising to the tall slightly waisted neck and everted rim, supported on a short foot, covered with a lustrous mirror-black glaze thinning to white around the rim and stopping short of the foot ring, with partly lost gilt decoration of a ferocious five-clawed writhing dragon pursuing the flaming pearl amidst cloud and fire scrolls above crested crashing waves, with trilobed lappets and floral sprays below a key-fret border around the rim.
51.cm (20⅛in) high.
Of compressed globular form with high shoulders rising to the tall slightly waisted neck and everted rim, supported on a short foot, covered with a lustrous mirror-black glaze thinning to white around the rim and stopping short of the foot ring, with partly lost gilt decoration of a ferocious five-clawed writhing dragon pursuing the flaming pearl amidst cloud and fire scrolls above crested crashing waves, with trilobed lappets and floral sprays below a key-fret border around the rim.
51.cm (20⅛in) high.
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Provenance: A European private collection














