A LARGE CHINESE WHITE-GLAZED OVOID ‘DRAGON’ VASE

A LARGE CHINESE WHITE-GLAZED OVOID ‘DRAGON’ VASE

18TH CENTURY

The body with a slightly flared short neck and moulded with two scaly four-clawed dragons, each chasing a sacred pearl of wisdom, the base unglazed, 31.5cm.

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 47, no.275, under the title heading of ‘Whole Colour Porcelain’.

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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47， 編號275。