Lot 219
Blue and Yellow Enamel Dragon Bowl, Kangxi Mark and Period (1662-1722)
Lot 219 Details
Blue and Yellow Enamel Dragon Bowl, Kangxi Mark and Period (1662-1722)
The thinly potted sides steeply rising towards a slightly everted rim, the exterior with a pair of finely rendered dragons completed in yellow enamel, each with a ferocious expression and soaring amid the scrolling clouds, all completed against a cobalt blue ground, the interior with a third, confronting dragon, the whole supported on a raised foot decorated with an overlapping lotus petal border and double blue rings along the foot
diameter 5.5" — 14 cm.
six-character Kangxi mark
Estimate $15,000-$20,000
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Provenance:
Chinese Porcelain from a Hong Kong Collector (lots 216-222)
Purchased in Beijing during the 1970’s
Note:
A pair of bowls with the same design were sold at Christie’s Hong Kong January 16th/17th, 1989 lot 733. A more recent example was sold at Christie’s London, November 8, 2011, lot 316.