Chinese Art: Dragon Vase Pear Shaped Blue and White Yuan Dynasty

100 Selected Chinese and Korean Ceramics from the Toguri Collection SALE L04212 LOT 15 SESSION 1 | 09 Jun 04 12:00 AM. London, New Bond Street f - A BLUE AND WHITE PEAR-SHAPED DRAGON VASE, (YUHUCHUN PING) YUAN DYNASTY 6,000—8,000 GBP Lot Sold. Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium: 7,200 GBP MEASUREMENTS measurements note 28.5cm., 11 1/4 in. DESCRIPTION of pear-shaped form with a slender neck and trumpet mouth, supported on a short flared foot, painted in greyish tones of underglaze-blue with a long scaly dragon writhing amidst cloud scroll, all above and below a band of lappets, the neck painted with stiff upright leaves, the interior of the rim with a collar of classic scroll CATALOGUE NOTE A related blue and white bottle, with the dragon between different decorative borders, was sold in these rooms, 11th December 1984, lot 317; and another in our New York rooms, 19th September 2001, lot 133. Compare also a bottle decorated with a phoenix instead of a dragon, in the Imelda Museum in the Philippines, illustrated in Ye Peilan, Yuandai ciqi, Beijing, 1998, pl. 92.

JBOC Note: The Yuan Dynasty was the Mongol Dynasty from 1279-1368 A.D.

I am not looking to buy or sell. I am reviewing this object to place it in context and to use it as a teaching aid.

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J. Barry O'Connell Jr.

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