Important Chinese Art
Important Chinese Art
A BLUE AND WHITE AND IRON-RED 'DRAGON' BOWL, KANGXI MARK AND PERIOD
Auction Closed
September 23, 08:35 PM GMT
Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
A BLUE AND WHITE AND IRON-RED 'DRAGON' BOWL
KANGXI MARK AND PERIOD
清康熙 青花礬紅彩海水龍紋盌 《大清康熙年製》款
with deep, rounded sides rising from a straight foot to an everted rim, the exterior painted with nine red dragons in varying vigorous poses over a ground of swirling and cresting waves below a band of interlocking coins encircling the mouth, the interior centered by a medallion of a single dragon in profile, the interior mouth and foot encircled with double-line borders, the base inscribed with a six-character mark in underglaze blue within a double circle
Diameter 7¼ in., 18.5 cm
Compare a closely related bowl in the Palace Museum Collection, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum. Miscellaneous Enamelled Porcelains. Plain Tricolour Porcelains, Shanghai, 2009, pl. 146. See also several similar examples sold at auction; two single bowls both sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 30th October 2002, lot 289, and 25th April 2004, lot 306; a pair also sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 5th April 2017, lot 3678; and another pair sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 29th November 2017, lot 3005.