Lot 3586. A Blue-Ground And Copper-Red ‘Dragon’ Bowl, Mark And Period Of Kangxi (1662-1722). H 23.7cm. Sold for HKD 816,000/USD 104,615 (Estimate HKD 450,000 - 680,000/USD 57,692 - 87,179). © Poly Auction Hong Kong Limited

Delicately potted and surmounted on a short foot, the steep sides rising towards a gently everted rim, the exterior applied with blue glaze stopping neatly at the foot, inscribed five-claw dragon in flight amidst wispy clouds and waves, decorated near the mouthrim and foot ring with underglazed-red lining, the base inscribed with a six-character reign mark within a double-circle.

Provenance: 1. The Edward T. Chow Collection
2. Sotheby's Hong Kong, 19 May 1981, lot 542
3. The Meiyintang Collection.

Exhibition: Evolution to Perfection: Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, Sporting d'Hiver, Monte Carlo, 1996, no.146.

Literature: Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol. 2, London, 1994-2010, p.188, no.836.

Note: The present lot is extremely rare and only three other examples appear to have been found. See a pair illustrated in Ming and Ch’ing Porcelain from the Collection of the T.Y.Chao Family Foundation, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1978; and one sold in Bonhams London, 10 Nov 2011, Lot 128.

Compare also an underglaze copper-red bowl, six-character Kangxi mark and period, from the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, London, now in the British Museum, illustrated by M.Medley in Illustrated Catalogue of Underglaze Blue and Copper Red Decorated Porcelains, London, 1976, pl.XIV, no.B665.

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