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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 31, 2017 | Christie's | Hong Kong | The Imperial Sale / Important Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art | 3011 | $****** - ****** | AN EXTREMELY RARE CARVED YELLOW AND RED LACQUER ‘DRAGON’ DISH |
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22.5 cm (8.88 in)
A Japanese private collection, acquired in the 1970s
The shallow dish is superbly carved on the interior through the gold-flecked brownish-yellow outer layer to the red ground with a large central medallion depicting two powerful dragons, one ascending, one descending amidst clouds on either side of a flaming pearl. The dragons’ scales are finely detailed contouring their bodies, and they are depicted above turbulent waves breaking against jagged rocks emerging from the sea, all against undulating sea diaper and geometric sky diaper, contained within a lobed quatrefoil border surrounded by peony sprays. The cavetto is deeply carved with four shaped panels, each enclosing three lotus blooms, separated by beribboned lozenges containing wan symbols. The exterior is similarly carved with continuous, dense flowering lotus meander. The base is lacquered red. Some of the digits on the claws of the dragons were later removed.
