The qing emperor kangxi Blue and white dragon canister

• RMB 345000
• HKD 388952
• USD 51750
• EUR 37950

see: sotheby’s Hong Kong, in the autumn of 2016 Lot3693, clinch a deal valence: 5480000 HKD

note: cover can form as a “general tank”, and small volume. Round mouth, short neck, shoulder, drum abdomen, lower abdomen inside collect, ring foot. Green porcelain body thin, glazed smooth, white grain concise inside collect, the outer wall draw out bead dragon grain, dragon jaw teeth, tooth claws, hair float in the sky after fire bead, commanding presence. The tank full cabinet modelling, the glaze supple, blue and white hair color bright, the composition is simple. Mustered the kind of this product is rare at home and abroad, and is in possession of a museum of Beijing the imperial palace grain but roughly the same size slightly larger kangxi porcelain double YunLongWen cans, see the Forbidden City publishing house, 2005 “the Palace Museum collection in the qing dynasty imperial kiln chinaware, volume one,” the days of the, chart no. 45. 2012 autumn sales at Christie’s in Hong Kong have a jar of class, and in the lot size is more compact, more show a round in shape, but with this reference.

according to the complete archives of qing dynasty porcelain “load:” jehol xanadu pear flower moon west around the room to save kangxi qinglong small cover tank 10 parts “. The canister hidden in jehol, kangxi period, the jehol summer and handle affairs in the emperor of qing dynasty, known as summer resort, there are hidden on the emperor imperial vessels.

this item of dragon pictures fastidious, should from the hand of court painter liu, liu (1638-85) in the eighteenth year of kangxi (1679) a letter to the life in Beijing as a painter, has been ordered to 1682 for jingdezhen imperial porcelain sample which du tao guan ZangYingXuan design. When the draft history of qing “records:” jingdezhen imperial kiln, hundreds of source in porcelain samples, and type of ancient and modern, shipped to new, for the clever. In painting figures, landscapes, flowers and birds, by the extremely wins.” The tank cover, on the plain white ground, chase only draw bead dragon, need not fat, this kind of pure and fresh and elegant beautiful imperial porcelain should be liu design, he developed jointly with ZangYingXuan kangxi imperial kiln chinaware, started with the different style of Ming dynasty.