An extremely rare blue-ground yellow and green-enamelled incised 'dragon' bowl, Mark and period of Zhengde | 明正德 青花黃綠彩劃雲龍紋盌 《正德年製》青花四字黃彩雙圈款
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An extremely rare blue-ground y💧ellow and green-enamelled incised 'dragon' bowl,
Mark and period of Zhengde
明正德 青花黃綠彩劃雲龍紋盌
《正德年製》青花四字黃彩雙圈款
finely potted with rounded sides rising from a short foot to a flared rim, the exterior deftly painted with two ferocious five-clawed dragons pursuing flaming pearls amidst ruyi clouds, their sinuous bodies enamelled over the glaze in vivid yellow with the mane and whiskers highlighted in bright green, all&nbꦿsp;reserved on an🐲 underglaze blue ground save for a simple yellow-band at the mouth and repeated at the foot, the interior left white and finely incised with two dragons surrounding a central medallion of a flaming pearl, the base inscribed with a four-character reign mark in underglaze-blue within a yellow-enamelled double circle
15.8 cm
Eskenazi Ltd, London.
Sotheby's Hong Kong, 26th November 1980, lot 242.
Collection of T.Y. Chao (1912-99).
Sotheby's Hong Kong, 18th November 1986, lot 54.
埃斯卡納齊，倫敦
香港蘇富比1980年11月26日，編號242
趙從衍（1912-99年）收藏
香港蘇富比1986年11月18日，編號54
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