Lot 1516
  • 1516

A YELLOW-GLAZED INCISED 'DRAGON' BOWL QING DYNASTY, KANGXI PERIOD |

Estimate
2,500 - 3,500 USD
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Description

  • Porcelain
  • Diameter 4 7/8  in., 12.4 cm
of square section with canted corners, the steep, gently flaring sides terminating in an everted rim, the exterior sides each incised with a writhing frontal five-clawed dragon, repeated to the interior well amid fiery wisps, glazed overall with a semi-translucent marigold-yellow glaze pooling in the recesses, all raised on a low, straight foot

Provenance

C.T. Loo & Cie., Paris, (two labels).
Collection of Johannes Hellner (1866-1947), Stockholm, Sweden.

Exhibited

K'ang-Hsi Porcelain, Selected Objects from Swedish Collections, The Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm, 1973, cat. no. 87.

Literature

Jan Wirgin, 'K'ang- Hsi Porcelain, Selected Objects from Swedish Collections', The Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm, Bulletin No. 46, Stockholm, 1974, pl. 50:b.
Bo Gyllensvärd, Oriental Ceramics: The World’s Great Collections, Vol. 9, Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm, Tokyo, 1976, pl. 241.

Condition

Restored branching breaks across and around the bowl.
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