Lot 2: A BLUE AND WHITE SOFT PASTE PORCELAIN 'DRAGON' VASE Kangxi

A BLUE AND WHITE SOFT PASTE PORCELAIN 'DRAGON' VASE

Kangxi

Of slightly compressed globular form, the wide body and shoulder painted in a penciled style with three 'Ming-style' striding dragons amidst fire or cloud scrolls that continue up the neck to a herring-bone band and stylized upright lappets, the upper neck plain beneath a single line at the rim, simple circlets painted between lines at the tall spreading foot, an encircled six-character
Chenghua mark to the base.


5 1/2in (14cm)

Generally, in excellent overall condition. Minute air-bubble pinpricks to the rim and neck but unobtrusive. Attractive and fine penciled design.

清康熙 漿胎青花龍紋瓶

青花「大明成化年製」雙圈楷書款



Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價




Provenance:

Samuel Putnam Avery (1822-1904), New York

Purchase by subscription, 1879

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1879-present




來源：

Samuel Putnam Avery (1822-1904)，紐約

會費購藏，1879年

大都會藝術博物館，1879 年迄今

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