A RARE PAIR OF TURQUOISE-GROUND PUCE ENAMELLED 'DRAGON' VASE...

Hammer

£24,000

A RARE PAIR OF TURQUOISE-GROUND PUCE ENAMELLED 'DRAGON' VASES
QIANLONG SEAL MARKS IN IRON-RED AND OF THE PERIOD 
the baluster sides superbly decorated in bright rouge on turquoise ground with two scaly dragons chasing flaming pearls amidst clouds and flame scrolls
35cm high

PROVENANCE: From a Private West Dorset Collection. 

NOTE: Christie's Hong Kong offered a 'Phoenix' vase with the same decoration in The Imperial Sale / Important Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, 31 May 2017; another vase of this type is in  the collection of National Museum of China, Beijing, and illustrated in Studies of the Collections of the National Museum of China, p. 163, pl. 107 (fig. 1).

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Finely executed crazes. Both have breaks and visible glued repairs around the rims. One has a small arched section missing around the rim. The other also with a small hairline from the rim.