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A gilt-decorated blue-ground bottle vase, Guangxu six-character mark and of the period (1875-1908)
Lot 1352. A gilt-decorated blue-ground bottle vase, Guangxu six-character mark and of the period (1875-1908); 15¼ in. (39 cm.) high. Estimate USD 7,000 - USD 9,000. Price realised USD 43,750. © Christie's Images Ltd 2013.
The body is decorated with two five-clawed dragons contesting a flaming pearl amidst flames and clouds above a band of cresting waves and below a shou character and lotus band on the neck and another dragon at similar pursuit on the waisted neck, all in gilding on a blue ground.
Property from the Dana P. Pollard Collection
Provenance: Acquired in Washington, D.C., circa 1988.
Note: A pair of similarly decorated Guangxu-marked vases, but of slightly smaller size (36.8 cm.), was sold at Christie's New York, 25 March 2011, lot 1579.
Compare, also, the Guangxu-marked vase with similar gilt decoration, but on a mirror-black ground, in the National Palace Museum, illustrated by van Oort, Chinese Porcelain of the 19th and 20th Centuries, The Netherlands, 1977, pl. 93.
Christie's. Fine Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art, New York, 19 - 20 September 2013
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