Chinese Qing Dynasty porcelain in a tapered globular body, with narrow straight neck to the rim, raised on splayed footed oval base. Two dragon Shaped handles flanked from shoulder to the neck. Main body decorated with cobalt blue hand painting in various tone and shades underglaze of front facing five claws dragon borne amidst flames above cresting waves. The neck with centralized Fu bat and the sacredLingZhi mushrooms. The drawing are subtle with remarkable strokes, tones, and fine glazing. A characteristic ‘heaped and piled effect’, the underglaze cobalt blue concentrates in certain areas, bubbling through the surface of the glaze and turning a deep blue-black. This inadvertently gave texture, energy and shading to the design. The immaculate porcelain body covered with a characteristic silky glaze, pooling on the base slightly veiling the mark. The shape is uniformly proportioned. The porcelain conformed all required specimen to be high valued Chinese GuanYao porcelain Imperial wares , with finest material, the whiteness, the glaze, the painting, and the shape. Without overlap the outlines of the design, well drawn, clear, subtle, and distinct. The clay is fine and exquisite, the glaze smooth, brilliant with a moist appearance, the finishing meticulous. Elegantly displayed upon a carved hardwood stand.


Mark on base, a six blue seal script -ZhuanShu- characters reign mark, QianLong Reign Period of Great Qing.


Dimension (Porcelain): 20-1/2" H x 15" W
Dimension (Stand): 3-1/2"

PROVENANCE:
Charlotte, North Carolina, a business enterpreneurs and prominent collectors; by inheritance. Same provenance's Lots can be found from Lot-188 through Lot-196, and Lot-267.

Over all in EXCELLENT condition.


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