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Auction archive: Lot number 315

A BLUE-GROUND POLYCHROME-DECORATED 'DRAGON' BOWL

Estimate
£30,000 - £50,000
ca. US$47,431 - US$79,052
Price realised:
£34,850
ca. US$55,099
Auction archive: Lot number 315

A BLUE-GROUND POLYCHROME-DECORATED 'DRAGON' BOWL

Estimate
£30,000 - £50,000
ca. US$47,431 - US$79,052
Price realised:
£34,850
ca. US$55,099
Beschreibung:

A BLUE-GROUND POLYCHROME-DECORATED 'DRAGON' BOWL
KANGXI UNDERGLAZE-BLUE SIX-CHARACTER MARK WITHIN A DOUBLE-CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1662-1722)
A BLUE-GROUND POLYCHROME-DECORATED 'DRAGON' BOWL KANGXI UNDERGLAZE-BLUE SIX-CHARACTER MARK WITHIN A DOUBLE-CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1662-1722) With gently rounded sides rising steeply to a slightly everted rim, the exterior decorated with two dragons, one in green enamel, the other iron-red, each striding through green, yellow and iron-red flames in pursuit of 'flaming pearls' above a band of overlapping lotus petals, the interior enamelled to the centre with a medallion decorated with a further dragon chasing a flaming pearl, all reserved on a cobalt blue ground and within blue double-line borders 5½ in. (14 cm.) diam.

Auction archive: Lot number 315
Auction:
Datum:
8 Nov 2011
Auction house:
Christie's
8 November 2011, London, King Street
Beschreibung:

A BLUE-GROUND POLYCHROME-DECORATED 'DRAGON' BOWL
KANGXI UNDERGLAZE-BLUE SIX-CHARACTER MARK WITHIN A DOUBLE-CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1662-1722)
A BLUE-GROUND POLYCHROME-DECORATED 'DRAGON' BOWL KANGXI UNDERGLAZE-BLUE SIX-CHARACTER MARK WITHIN A DOUBLE-CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1662-1722) With gently rounded sides rising steeply to a slightly everted rim, the exterior decorated with two dragons, one in green enamel, the other iron-red, each striding through green, yellow and iron-red flames in pursuit of 'flaming pearls' above a band of overlapping lotus petals, the interior enamelled to the centre with a medallion decorated with a further dragon chasing a flaming pearl, all reserved on a cobalt blue ground and within blue double-line borders 5½ in. (14 cm.) diam.

Auction archive: Lot number 315
Auction:
Datum:
8 Nov 2011
Auction house:
Christie's
8 November 2011, London, King Street
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