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A FINE AND RARE COPPER-RED DECORATED 'DRAGON' VASE, YUHUCHUNPING
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(Set Currency)
    HK$4,000,000 - HK$6,000,000
  • ($518,452 - $777,677)

Sale Information

Sale 2711
the imperial saleimportant chinese ceramics and works of art
27 May 2009
Convention Hall Buy Catalog




Lot Description

A FINE AND RARE COPPER-RED DECORATED 'DRAGON' VASE, YUHUCHUNPING
QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEALMARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)

The pear-shaped body finely painted with a pair of lively five-clawed dragons striding amidst clusters of ruyi clouds and flames, both contesting a 'flaming pearl' above crested waves around the base, the tapering neck with a band of ruyi-heads below a keyfret band and overlapping plaintain leaves, the underside of the everted mouth rim with overlapping ruyi-heads, repeated on the slightly splayed foot ring
11 5/8 in. (29.5 cm.) high, box


清乾隆 釉裏紅雙龍戲珠紋玉壺春瓶 六字篆書款

此器1994年3月3日於香港蘇富比拍賣，拍品194號；2002年10月30日再次於香港蘇富比拍賣，拍品292號。並著錄於《香港蘇富比三十週年》266頁。

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Literature

Sotheby's Thirty Years in Hong Kong, Hong Kong, p. 266, no. 295

Lot Notes

Previously sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 3 May 1994, lot 194 and sold again at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 30 October 2002, lot 292.

Qing dynasty underglaze-red ceramics decorated with the use of fine 'pencil-line' drawings are very rare. This decorative technique can be found as early as the Kangxi period, as seen on a large fish jar, a floral-decorated waterpot and a dragon bowl, all in the Beijing Palace Museum collection, illustrated in Blue and White Porcelain with Underglaze Red (III), The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Hong Kong, 2000, nos. 167, 168 and 169 respectively. It was also adopted in the Yongzheng reign, see ibid., no. 170, a pear-shaped vase and no. 171, a meiping. Although no other examples are known, the painting style of the dragons amidst ruyi-clouds on the present vase is very closely related to those painted on a jar in the Palace Museum, ibid., no. 178.

The arrangment of the motifs into registers along the particularly slender neck of the present vase is reminiscent of a pear-shaped vase dated to the Kangxi period in the Palace Museum, designed with scrolling lotus on the body, ibid., no. 165. It is mentioned that the Kangxi vase had taken its inspiration from those of the Ming dynasty Hongwu period.

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