WUCAI 'DRAGON' GARLIC-HEAD VASE
WANLI MARK BUT QING DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY
£1,008
Auction: 15 March 2023 at 10:00 GMT
Description
清 萬曆款 五彩穿花龍紋蒜頭瓶
the sturdily potted pear-shaped body supported by a short straight foot, rising to a garlic-bulb shaped mouth, the main body decorated in the wucai palette including iron-red and vivid purplish underglaze-blue, painted with two pairs of ferocious dragons, each pair in mutual pursuit of a 'flaming pearl' amid scattered flowers on meandering leafy stems, beneath a band of upright and pendant triangles containing trefoils at the shoulder, the slender neck with birds flying among fruiting shrubs, the garlic-bulb mouth with multi-colour lotus scrolls, the rim inscribed with a six-character mark in underglaze-blue in a cartouche reserved on a foliate band
Dimensions
34cm high
Footnote
Note: The base bears a paper label reading 'Collection Joan Dirven Eindhoven, Hollande'