A CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE ‘DRAGON’ STEM BOWL

A CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE ‘DRAGON’ STEM BOWL

KANGXI 1662-1722

The shallow bowl with a flared rim, unglazed to the centre, painted to the exterior in underglaze cobalt blue with two dragons with bifurcated scrolling tails, divided by sketchy lotus flowerheads and leaves, raised on a tall flared cylindrical stem, 14.3cm.

Provenance: Field Marshal Earl Kitchener of Khartoum (1850-1916), and thence by descent through the family. This stem bowl is recorded in the Christie, Manson & Woods inventory at Broome Park, in December 1916 on page 41, no.3, where it is located in the Hall.

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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41， 編號3。