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Description:
DESCRIPTION : Well potted with broad rounded shoulders, superbly painted in a deep underglaze-blue of rich tones with a magnificent dragon, its massive jaws open and eyes bulging from below bushy brows, fixed intently on the 'flaming pearl', head surmounted by long branching antlers flanking a streaming mane, the scaly undulating body highlighted by a saw-toothed crest along the spine above powerful legs with feathery tufts at the knees above four-clawed feet with gnarled digits terminating in a scythe-like claw, all above a band of upright lappets enclosing stylised trefoil and ring motifs at the foot, and below a collar of scrolling lotus around the shoulders, the full-petalled flowers borne on an undulating stem alternately upright and pendent between trefoil leaves, the short wide neck encircled by a band of crashing waves below a slightly lipped rim. Yuan dynasty blue-and-white jars painted with a single large dragon are rare although two closely related pieces can be found in Japan, one illustrated in Chinese Ceramics in the Idemitsu Collection, Tokyo, 1987, col. pl. 142, with the dragon facing the other way, a peony scroll replacing the lotus scroll and an additional diaper border below the dragon; and the other in the Tokyo National Museum, included in Oriental Ceramics. The World's Great Collections, vol. 1, Tokyo, 1982, col. pl. 18, with no other border than waves round the neck and foot. Dragons painted in this extremely powerful and elaborate style in deep blue with scales carefully rendered in reserve, great movement in its pose and an expressive face with finely painted detail, reflect the most mature painting style of the Yuan dynasty. See the dragon design on the famous David vases dated to 1351, in the Percival David Foundation, London, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics. The World's Great Collections, vol. 6, 1982, col. pl. 25, one of which was sold in our London rooms, 6th June 1935, lot 89, from the Charles E.Russell collection; and on the unique meiping from the collection of the Ottoman sultans in Istanbul, illustrated in Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul, vol.2, London, 1986, no. 578, colour pl. p. 398. Compare also a smaller jar decorated in a more formal style with two dragons, excavated together with a hoard of Yuan silver in Jintan county, Jiangsu province, and now in the Jiangsu Provincial Museum, Nanjing, illustrated in Historical Relics Unearthed in new China, Beijing, 1972, p. 198; and a jar fragment showing part of a dragon, excavated at Jingdezhen and included in the exhibition Imperial Porcelain. Recent Discoveries of Jingdezhen Ware, Osaka Municipal Art Museum, Osaka, 1995, cat.no. 183. PRICE IS $45,000. FIRM. FEEL FREE TO ASK FOR MORE PHOTOS.
| Status: Sold |
Reference#: CRMM505 |
| Condition:
Excellent |
Year:
1345 to 1350
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| Country:
China |
Maker:
Chinese |
| Height:
9.96 in. (25.30 cm) |
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Width: 13.5 in. (34.29 cm)
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| Title:
AN IMPORTANT BLUE AND WHITE 'DRAGON' JAR YUAN DYNASTY, MID 14TH CENTURY |
Style:
Yuan Dynasty |
| Materials:
Antique Chinese Porcelain. |
Type:
Yuan Dynasty |
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