AN EXTREMELY RARE MASSIVE BLUE AND WHITE 'DRAGON' BALUSTER VASE YONGZHENG SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD The strongly potted vase is vividly painted in greyish-blue tones, simulating Ming-style 'heaping and piling' with a senior three-clawed dragon and three junior five-clawed horned dragons around the body below a three-clawed and a five-clawed dragon around the trumpet neck, all amidst a dense composite floral meander including lotus and peony blooms above a border with bats flying amid breaking waves, the shoulder with a cloud collar border below two raised bands, one decorated with key-fret, a further composite floral-scroll below the rim (rim crack) 28 in. (71 cm.) high
AN EXTREMELY RARE MASSIVE BLUE AND WHITE 'DRAGON' BALUSTER VASE YONGZHENG SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD The strongly potted vase is vividly painted in greyish-blue tones, simulating Ming-style 'heaping and piling' with a senior three-clawed dragon and three junior five-clawed horned dragons around the body below a three-clawed and a five-clawed dragon around the trumpet neck, all amidst a dense composite floral meander including lotus and peony blooms above a border with bats flying amid breaking waves, the shoulder with a cloud collar border below two raised bands, one decorated with key-fret, a further composite floral-scroll below the rim (rim crack) 28 in. (71 cm.) high
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