Lot description
A RARE IMPERIAL UNDERGLAZE-BLUE AND IRON-RED ENAMELLED VASE Qianlong seal mark and of the period The slightly compressed globular body on a splayed foot rising to a flaring trumpet neck, the main body vividly enamelled with two pairs of confronted winged dragons in iron-red amidst billowing clouds, the neck featuring smaller matching pairs of winged dragons, all beautifully set within lappets, trefoils, pomegranate motifs and ruyi-heads in underglaze-blue with iron-red decorated bats on the foot and repeated on the stepped shoulders, the base with a six-character zhuanshu seal mark in underglaze-blue. 13.1cm (5 1/8in) high Provenance: T.Y.Chao, Hong Kong Sotheby's Hong Kong, The T.Y.Chao Private and Family Trust Collections of Important Chinese Ceramics and Jade Carvings: Part II, 19 May 1987, lot 320 Shimentang collection Eskenazi Ltd., London, Qing Porcelain from a Private Collection, London, 2012, no.18
