Rare vase en porcelaine bleu blanc, Chine, Dynastie Qing, marque à six caractères et époque Kangxi (1662-1722). Photo Christie's Image Ltd 2012

De forme balustre, sa panse est ornée de deux dragons émergeant de flots tumulteux et volant parmi les nuages à la poursuite de la perle sacrée. La base porte une marque à six caractères de l'Empereur Kangxi en bleu sous couverte ; accidents et restaurations. Hauteur: 42,7 cm. (16¾ in.). Estimate €15,000 - €20,000. Price Realized €32,200

A RARE BLUE AND WHITE BALUSTER VASE. CHINA, QING DYNASTY, KANGXI SIX-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1662-1722)

Notes: This type of dragon vases appears with both cobalt-blue and copper-red painting under Kangxi reign. Blue and white examples of this type of vase bearing a Kangxi mark are particularly rare.

Compare with an identical example, although of a smaller size, illustrated in Kangxi Porcelain Wares from the Shanghai Museum Collection, Shanghai Museum, The Woods Publishing Company, Hong Kong, p.29. Another vase of comparable size, shape and design but with a copper-red dragon is illustrated in The World's Great Collections, Oriental Ceramics, vol.6, Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, London, Kodansha International Ltd., Tokyo, New York and San Francisco, 1982, pl. 49.

Christie's. Art d'Asie, 19 December 2012, Paris