The Dragon Emperor | Chinese Art
The Dragon Emperor | Chinese Art
Property of a Lady | 女史收藏
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Auction Closed
April 9, 12:02 PM GMT
Estimate
6,000,000 - 8,000,000 HKD
Lot Details
Description
Property of a Lady
A superb and rare blue and white 'dragon' brush washer,
Mark and period of Xuande
女史收藏
明宣德 青花雲龍紋十瓣葵花式洗
《大明宣德年製》款
finely potted with upright sides divided into ten mallow-shaped lobes forming shallow radiating ribs on the interior and flaring at the rim to evoke a blooming flower, superbly painted in vivid tones of cobalt-blue enhanced by characteristic 'heaping and pilling', the very slightly convex centre decorated with a writhing five-clawed dragon plunging amid lingzhi-shaped cloud swirls and flames, all within a double-line border repeated around the rim, the exterior with ten quatrefoil panels enclosing alternately leaping and plunging dragons amid swirling clouds and flames, all between further double-line borders at the foot and mouth rims, the unglazed footrim neatly cut to conforming lobed shape, the slightly concave base inscribed with the six-character mark within a double-circle
16.8 cm
An important Asian private collection, acquired in Japan circa 2000.
亞洲重要私人收藏,約2000年於日本入藏