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Auction archive: Lot number 2985

AN IMPORTANT AND EXTREMELY RARE BLUE AND WHITE 'KUI DRAGON' JAR AN IMPORTANT AND EXTREMELY RARE BLUE AND WHITE 'KUI DRAGON' JAR XUANDE SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1426-1435)

Estimate
HK$30,000,000 - HK$50,000,000
ca. US$3,865,157 - US$6,441,929
Price realised:
HK$31,450,000
ca. US$4,051,973
Auction archive: Lot number 2985

AN IMPORTANT AND EXTREMELY RARE BLUE AND WHITE 'KUI DRAGON' JAR AN IMPORTANT AND EXTREMELY RARE BLUE AND WHITE 'KUI DRAGON' JAR XUANDE SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1426-1435)

Estimate
HK$30,000,000 - HK$50,000,000
ca. US$3,865,157 - US$6,441,929
Price realised:
HK$31,450,000
ca. US$4,051,973
Beschreibung:

AN IMPORTANT AND EXTREMELY RARE BLUE AND WHITE 'KUI DRAGON' JAR XUANDE SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1426-1435) The jar is finely potted with a slightly compressed globular body rising to a vertical neck and lipped rim, supported on a low and broad foot, finely painted in rich saturated cobalt of inky-blue tone with areas of 'heaping and piling' to depict a striding three-clawed kui dragon with a long snout, curled horns pointed back toward its sinuous, muscular upper body and forelegs, its bifurcated foliate scroll tail extends from behind its wings, its jaws open wide with a floral sprig extending from its tongue. The foot is decorated with a band of petal panels, and a cloud collar with ten flower sprays on the shoulder below a ruyi band at the neck framing stylised trefoils. The reign mark is well written on the base. 7 1/4 in. (18.3 cm.) high, box

Auction archive: Lot number 2985
Auction:
Datum:
28 May 2021
Auction house:
Christie's
King Street, St. James's 8
London, SW1Y 6QT
United Kingdom
+44 (0)20 7839 9060
+44 (0)20 73892869
Beschreibung:

AN IMPORTANT AND EXTREMELY RARE BLUE AND WHITE 'KUI DRAGON' JAR XUANDE SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1426-1435) The jar is finely potted with a slightly compressed globular body rising to a vertical neck and lipped rim, supported on a low and broad foot, finely painted in rich saturated cobalt of inky-blue tone with areas of 'heaping and piling' to depict a striding three-clawed kui dragon with a long snout, curled horns pointed back toward its sinuous, muscular upper body and forelegs, its bifurcated foliate scroll tail extends from behind its wings, its jaws open wide with a floral sprig extending from its tongue. The foot is decorated with a band of petal panels, and a cloud collar with ten flower sprays on the shoulder below a ruyi band at the neck framing stylised trefoils. The reign mark is well written on the base. 7 1/4 in. (18.3 cm.) high, box

Auction archive: Lot number 2985
Auction:
Datum:
28 May 2021
Auction house:
Christie's
King Street, St. James's 8
London, SW1Y 6QT
United Kingdom
+44 (0)20 7839 9060
+44 (0)20 73892869
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