AN EXTREMELY RARE IMPERIAL YANGCAI PUCE, BLUE, AND BLACK-ENAMELLED ‘DRAGON AND PHOENIX’SGRAFFITO PINK-GROUND TEA BOWL AND COVER QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARKS IN IRON RED AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795) The bowl is finely enamelled in puce enamel with a dragon and phoenix in flight with eyes picked out in black amid blue-enamelled clouds above a band of conjoined ruyi heads and a band of dots around the foot, against a pale pink-enamelled sgraffito ground incised with feathery scrolls. The cover is similarly decorated. The top of the cover and the base of the bowl are inscribed with the iron-red reign marks reserved on a turquoise enamel. The interiors are covered with a transparent glaze. 4 in. (10.2 cm.) diam., box
AN EXTREMELY RARE IMPERIAL YANGCAI PUCE, BLUE, AND BLACK-ENAMELLED ‘DRAGON AND PHOENIX’SGRAFFITO PINK-GROUND TEA BOWL AND COVER QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARKS IN IRON RED AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795) The bowl is finely enamelled in puce enamel with a dragon and phoenix in flight with eyes picked out in black amid blue-enamelled clouds above a band of conjoined ruyi heads and a band of dots around the foot, against a pale pink-enamelled sgraffito ground incised with feathery scrolls. The cover is similarly decorated. The top of the cover and the base of the bowl are inscribed with the iron-red reign marks reserved on a turquoise enamel. The interiors are covered with a transparent glaze. 4 in. (10.2 cm.) diam., box
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