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Source:
John Sparks Ltd., London
exhibition:
Oosterse schatten, “4000 Jaar Aziatische Kunst”, the Dutch national museum, Amsterdam, 1954, no. 423
as a foreign power, manchu emperor is committed to shaping its legitimacy and supreme imperial power, this is reflected in regnant process, blue and white dragon playing pearl grain based coating, yunlong, huang wei yao. Since ancient times, the dragon symbol, pour love of qianlong emperor for the dragon pattern, however, be unprecedented, qianlong once, qing dynasty palace are visible symbol everywhere decorated with dragon with five claws of the Kings.
blue flat pot oblong shape, rare and special, reveal the highly development of qianlong imperial kiln. Square shoulder is symmetrical, or drawn metal wares, throwing, can only by mold making split, ssangyong play pearl grain is not rare, description did not see the same big pot.
see more flat pot dragon of dragon, dragon head facing the viewer, such double dragon each act the role of two side, generic early Ming decoration, like two dragons relative person here, is very rare. Refer to a sea dragon flat bottles, compose side first ssangyong, November 6, 2013 sotheby’s sold in London, number 16. Another example of sotheby’s sale in Paris on December 18, 2008, no. 68. There is a pot of sale at Christie’s in New York on March 26, 2003, no. 263.
in the Ming dynasty first dragon grain, a paradise for example, for the QiuYan, zhao from yan to hide, November 18, 1986 at sotheby’s Hong Kong, no. 34, in Michel Beurdeley, “La Ceramique Chinoise”, Buddha fort, 1974, 56 color map version, and the world ceramics complete works, volume 11, Tokyo, 1955, 74 chart. Eighteenth century royal blue and white coating, which tried to effect a copy the fifteenth century using cobalt material repeatedly touched, with similar Ming porcelain, black iron effect seen in the decorative part of the black clip figure. |
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