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An important and rare Chinese Imperial blue and white dragon…
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Melbourne
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13-Nov-2022
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An important and rare Chinese Imperial blue and white dragon bowl, Xuande six-character under glazed blue mark and of the period (1339-1435) the bowl is finely decorated with a continuous frieze of four five-clawed dragons chasing flaming pearls and surrounded by cloud scrolls, the interior centre with a circular panel enclosing a scaly dragon within blue circles, the base with a finely written six-character Xuande mark within double blue circles, 23 cm diameter, 9.5 cm high. Literature: Silk Road Asian Art, Fine Chinese, Japanese, South East Asian works of Art, 3/2020, no. 32. Provenance: An important private collection, Sydney, Australia.
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