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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Apr 3, 2018 | Sotheby's | Hong Kong | Important Chinese Art | 3620 | $****** - ****** | A FINE AND MAGNIFICENT LEMON-YELLOW AND UNDERGLAZE-BLUE ‘DRAGON’ VASE, TIANQIUPING |
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60.8 cm (23.94 in)
A Swiss collection since the 1970s, thence by descent.
robustly potted with a globular body rising to a cylindrical neck, the body superbly painted in rich cobalt-blue tones simulating the 'heaped and piled' effect, depicting a pair of mighty ferocious dragons, with large bulging eyes beneath heavy brows and flaring nostrils flanked by long curly whiskers, their mouths opened revealing menacing teeth, surmounted by prominent long horns swept back behind a billowing mane, their undulating scaly bodies terminating in powerful muscular limbs and sharp claws, the dominant dragon depicted three-clawed and its subordinate five-clawed, striding amidst a continuous leafy meander bearing large stylised lotus blooms in various orientations, all below a band of pendent ruyi-heads, the rim and base bordered with a band enclosing crashing tumultuous waves against a thin, translucent, pale turquoise wash, all reserved against a brilliant lemon-yellow ground continuing over the rim into the interior, the base similarly enamelled yellow save for the unglazed footring and a white square in the centre inscribed in underglaze blue with a six-character seal mark
