Fine Asian Art - 14th November 2023

Lot 44

A LARGE CHINESE WHITE-GLAZED OVOID ‘DRAGON’ VASE

Estimate £2,000 - £3,000 | Hammer £5040

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Description

A LARGE CHINESE WHITE-GLAZED OVOID ‘DRAGON’ VASE

18TH CENTURY

The body with a slightly flared short neck and moulded with two scaly four-clawed dragons, each chasing a sacred pearl of wisdom, the base unglazed, 31.5cm.

Provenance: Field Marshal Earl Kitchener of Khartoum (1850-1916), and thence by descent through the family. This vase is recorded in the Christie, Manson & Woods inventory at Broome Park, in December 1916 on page 47, no.275, under the title heading of ‘Whole Colour Porcelain’.

十八世紀 白釉淺浮雕趕珠龍紋罐

來源:霍雷肖•赫伯特•基奇納元帥(1850-1916),之後由其後人繼承。據佳士得Manson & Woods出版的, Broome Park庫存手冊中記載,1916年12月,頁47, 編號275。