AN EXTREMELY RARE AND LARGE CLOISONNE ENAMEL 'DRAGON' TIANQIUPING QING DYNASTY, YONGZHENG PERIOD of impressive size, the globular body supported on a short circular foot, surmounted by a waisted cylindrical neck with rolled lip, powerfully decorated with bright enamels of various hue within strong gilt-bronze outlines, depicting a ferocious three-clawed dragon with mouth wide opened revealing sharp fangs and a curled tongue, its long curly whiskers issuing from either side of its flared snout, crowned by a pair of white horns protruding from its mane formed from a mass of radiating red fur, sweeping back to its powerful coiling body covered in pink and red scales, its forearm extended to reach for a flaming pearl, the muscular limbs aggressively striding on tumultuous waves of various shades of blue and white foams swirling into crested currents just above the base, the rim and the circular base gilt 57.3 cm, 22 1/2 in.
AN EXTREMELY RARE AND LARGE CLOISONNE ENAMEL 'DRAGON' TIANQIUPING QING DYNASTY, YONGZHENG PERIOD of impressive size, the globular body supported on a short circular foot, surmounted by a waisted cylindrical neck with rolled lip, powerfully decorated with bright enamels of various hue within strong gilt-bronze outlines, depicting a ferocious three-clawed dragon with mouth wide opened revealing sharp fangs and a curled tongue, its long curly whiskers issuing from either side of its flared snout, crowned by a pair of white horns protruding from its mane formed from a mass of radiating red fur, sweeping back to its powerful coiling body covered in pink and red scales, its forearm extended to reach for a flaming pearl, the muscular limbs aggressively striding on tumultuous waves of various shades of blue and white foams swirling into crested currents just above the base, the rim and the circular base gilt 57.3 cm, 22 1/2 in.
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