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A FINE AND RARE IMPERIAL YELLOW-ENAMELLED MOULDED 'DRAGON' BOWL
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    HK$6,800,000 - HK$8,000,000
  • ($880,078 - $1,035,386)

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Sale 2811
The Imperial Sale Important Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art
31 May 2010
Hong Kong Buy Catalog





Lot Description

A FINE AND RARE IMPERIAL YELLOW-ENAMELLED MOULDED 'DRAGON' BOWL
YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARK WITHIN DOUBLE-CIRCLES AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735)

The bowl with rounded sides rising to a flared rim, the exterior moulded in low relief with a band of interlinked archaistic dragons, all under a transparent rich yellow enamel that stops below the rim and above the foot, the interior and base covered in a transparent glaze with a soft blue tinge
9 in. (23 cm.) diam., box


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盌撇口，深弧腹，圈足。盌內施白釉。外壁飾黃釉，環腹部凸印夔龍拐子紋一周。足內白釉地雙圈內青花書「大清雍正年製」楷書款。

此器釉色嬌嫩瑩潤，造型端莊規整，盡顯皇家氣派。黃釉瓷燒製始於明代，曾經一度停燒，到清順治時期才恢復燒製。至雍正朝黃釉燒製的藝術水平達到頂峰，在前朝的基礎上加入創新元素，燒製出不同種類、完美的雞油黃和檸檬黃蛋黃等黃釉瓷器。

此器源自香港佳士得1988年1月19日陸運濤夫人珍藏專拍，拍品270號；後由張宗憲收藏，1993年6月2-14日於倫敦佳士得張宗憲瓷器珍藏展中 展出，展品46號。

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Provenance

Christina Loke Balsara, sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 19 January 1988, lot 270
The Robert Chang collection

Exhibited

An Exhibition of Important Chinese Ceramics from the Robert Chang Collection, Christie's London, 1993, Catalogue, p. 105, no. 46

Lot Notes

Bowls of this pattern were produced during the 18th century and reflect the fascination for motifs and forms of archaic bronzes at the Imperial court. Compare two related Yongzheng-marked bowls, both enamelled yellow with the moulded dragon elements in green enamel, the first sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 23 May 1978, lot 168; and the other illustrated by J. Ayers, Far Eastern Ceramics in the Victoria and Albert Museum, Kodansha series, 1980, no. 211, from the Gulland gift. A third example, enamelled with turquoise-glaze highlighting the archaistic dragon band, was included in An Exhibition of Important Chinese Ceramics from the Robert Chang Collection, 1993, and illustrated in the Catalogue, p. 235, no. 112.

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