A CHINESE IMPERIAL GREEN-ENAMELLED 'DRAGON' JAR

£2,000 - £3,000 £10,710

A CHINESE IMPERIAL GREEN-ENAMELLED 'DRAGON' JAR
SIX CHARACTER QIANLONG MARK AND OF THE PERIOD 1736-95

The ovoid body rising to a rounded shoulder and a short straight neck, painted in green enamel with two five-clawed dragons striding amidst clouds and flames in pursuit of flaming pearls, beneath a border of the Eight Buddhist Emblems, Bajixiang, around the shoulder and a band of lotus lappets encircling the base, 20.5cm.

Provenance: Field Marshal Earl Kitchener of Khartoum (1850-1916), and thence by descent through the family. This vase is recorded in the Christie, Manson & Woods inventory at Broome Park, in December 1916 on page 84, no.64 where it is located in the Billiard room.

Cf. Chinese Porcelain, The S C Ko Tianminlou Collection, p.156, pl.114, for a green-enamelled jar of this design.

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來源：霍雷肖•赫伯特•基奇納元帥（1850-1916），之後由其後人繼承。據佳士得Manson & Woods出版的， Broome Park庫存手冊中記載，1916年12月，頁84，編號64。