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Lot 24

A RARE AND IMPORTANT BLUE AND WHITE AND COPPER-RED 'DRAGON' VASE, TIANQIUPING
Qianlong six-character seal mark and of the period

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Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art including the Francine and Bernard Wald Collection of Fine Snuff Bottles, Part I
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A RARE AND IMPORTANT BLUE AND WHITE AND COPPER-RED 'DRAGON' VASE, TIANQIUPING

Qianlong six-character seal mark and of the period
The imposing globular body rising elegantly to a waisted cylindrical neck set off by a 'cloud collar' band over three splendid three-claw dragons with muscular bodies and flowing manes all contesting the elusive 'flaming pearl' on a field of steaming cloud flurries continuing up the cylindrical neck over roiling waves at the foot, a six-character Qianlong mark in underglaze blue centered in the recessed foot.
21 3/4in (55.2cm) high; 4 13/16in (12.3cm) diam of mouth; 6 3/4in (17.1cm) diam of foot

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請注意，拍品24號不支持線上競標。您可以選擇電話委託、書面委託或親自到現場競標。
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清乾隆 《大清乾隆年製》篆書款 珍罕青花釉裡紅雲龍圖天球瓶

Provenance:
Oriental Decor, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts, 29 October 1971
Rolly Michaux Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
The Collection of Ron Rolly and Ronald R. Michaux

來源：
馬薩諸塞州波士頓市，Oriental Decor, Inc.，1971 年 10 月 29 日
馬薩諸塞州波士頓市，Rolly Michaux Gallery
Ron Rolly 及 Ronald R. Michaux 舊藏

Part of the private collection of Ron Rolly and Ronald Michaux, former art dealers and owners of the Rolly Michaux Gallery, this splendid vase was discovered in their Marlborough residence in 2023. According to receipt found in their home records, the vase was purchased on October 29, 1971, from Oriental Decor, Inc., a well-known Boston Newbury Street gallery then owned by Joe Rotti and Arthur Rabinowitz, and a destination for discerning collectors looking for fine art from China and Japan.

The Rolly Michaux Gallery appeared to share the same address in 1971. In 1975, Rolly-Michaux bought a gallery space nearby in the famed Vendome Hotel building, the site of a historic fire four years before, and then renovated as a posh gallery location. It remained a well-known gallery for collectors of European art until Ron Rolly's death, in 2020; Mr. Michaux then sold the space.

This spectacular vase has a nearly identical example in the Beijing Palace Museum Collection, published in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum. Blue and White Porcelain with Underglaze Red (II), catalog no. 211, p. 231.

See a different execution of a 'dragon in clouds' Tianqiuping also in the Palace Museum Collection and published, op.cit, on the preceding page, catalog p. 230, no. 210. See the same steamy waves as the present lot on a two-dragon meiping published in Lu Zhangshen, ed., Zhongguo Guojia Bowuguan gudai ishu xilie congshu: Zhongguo gudai ciqi yishu, catalog no. 123, pp. 288-291, and another Yongzheng meiping formerly in the collection of Taji Shuichi collection published in Treasures from Japan. Masterpieces of Chinese Ceramics from Yamanaka & Co., Ltd. and Other Japanese Collections （東瀛遺珠：山中商會及日本舊藏名窑瓷器）, Beijing, 2019, catalog no. 86, pp. 218-219.

As recorded by Huang Qinghua in his extensive essay preceding this lot, dragon-decorated tianqiuping in underglaze blue and copper red were rare and varied in design; all were spectacular achievements of the Jingdezhen kilns in the Yongzheng and Qianlong periods. Extremely difficult to successfully fire due to their size and the volatility of the copper-red glaze, the few extant are prized by collectors. See a Yongzheng mark and period single dragon tianqiuping sold Christie's, Hong Kong, 30 November 2023, lot 2840; another single dragon vase, Qianlong, sold Sotheby's, Hong Kong, 16-17 May 1989, another Qianlong single dragon vase sold at the American Art Galleries, 27 December 1920, lot 387.

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