Lot 21. Property from an important European collection. A yellow-ground green-enamelled 'chilong' bottle vase, Kangxi mark, possibly later; 18.4 cm. Lot Sold 482,600 HKD (Estimate 30,000 - 50,000 HKD). © Sotheby's 2024

the tapering body rising from a recessed base to an angled shoulder and tall neck, decorated in relief around the shoulder with an archaistic three-clawed chilong in green, reserved on a rich egg-yolk yellow ground, the white base inscribed with a six-character reign mark.

Provenance: Acquired from Edward T. Chow (1910-80) in the late 1960s.

Literature: Edward T. Chow and Frederick Seguier Drake, ‘Kuan-Yao and Min-Yao: A Study on Imperial Porcelain and People's Porcelain from K'ang-hsi to the End of the Ch'ing Dynasty’, Archives of the Chinese Art Society of America, vol. 13, 1959, pl. XXIII, 1a. 

Sotheby's. An Important European Collection of Chinese Ceramics - Acquired from Edward T. Chow, Hong Kong, 9 April 2024.