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A rare pair of Imperial yellow-ground dragon bowls, Qianlong…
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Auction Location:
Melbourne
Date:
26-Feb-2007
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Description:
A rare pair of Imperial yellow-ground dragon bowls, Qianlong mark and period (1736-1795), each one decorated with five iron-red dragons, interior plain, 12 cm, titled box. Provenance: Spink London; J.K. Lawrence collection, Sydney; ex Bluett & Son, London; old oriental ceramics exhibition label, No. 89, 1965?. Literature: see: John Ayers, Chinese porcelain, the S.C. Ko Tianlminlou collection, part 1 Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1987, No. 102; another example was sold by Sothebys Hk, 15/11/1988, the Paul and Helen Bernat collection of important Imperial porcelain and works of Art, lot 29; a similar bowl in the Victoria and Albert Museum is illustrated in R. Kerr, Chinese Ceramics, porcelain of the Qing Dynasty, pl 27; also a pair from the H.M. Knight collection was exhibited in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, the Oosters Schatten collection, 1954, No. 419; also: for another example see: Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong: Qing porcelain in the Palace Museum collection, Hong Kong 1989, p 334, pl 15; also: Qing Imperial porcelain, Art gallery, the Chinese University of Hk, 1995, cat No. 84
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Category:
Oriental: Ceramics - Chinese