A rare yellow-ground and iron-red-decorated 'dragon' bowl, Mark and period of Qianlong | 清乾隆　黃地礬紅彩龍紋盌 《大清乾隆年製》款

The Goldschlager Collection.

Sotheby's Hong Kong, 30th April 1996, lot 523.

With regal five-clawed dragons swirling atop a rich yellow ground, this bowl is the epitome of imperial splendour. The vibrant colours of the design, the use of which was restricted to only those closest to the emperor, lends the bowl an ineffable sense of vivacity and sophistication. 

A number of closely related bowls of this design are held in important museum collections. Compare one in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong: Qing Porcelain from the Palace Museum Collection, Hong Kong, 1989, pl. 15; another in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, published in Rose Kerr, Chinese Ceramics: Porcelain of the Qing Dynasty 1644-1911, London, 1986, p. 49, fig. 27; and another in the collection of the Nanjing Museum, Nanjing, exhibited in Qing Imperial Porcelain of the Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong Reigns, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 1995, cat. no. 84. Another closely related pair of bowls from the Yidetang Collection was sold in these rooms, 12th October 2021, lot 25; and another pair from the Hohler collection, sold in our London rooms, 6th November 2024, lot 9.

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香港蘇富比1996年4月30日，編號523

此盌以明黃為地，五爪游龍盤踞其上，盡顯皇家威儀。紋飾所用釉彩唯近御之臣方可賜用，色澤絢麗，更添器身靈動精雅之氣韻。

與此盌紋樣相關之例，可見於重要博物館典藏。北京故宮博物院藏一例，錄於《故宮珍藏康雍乾瓷器圖錄》，香港，1989年，圖版15；倫敦維多利亞與阿爾伯特博物館藏一例，載于柯玫瑰《中國陶瓷：清代瓷器1644-1911》，倫敦，1986年，頁49，圖27；南京博物院藏例曾展出于香港中文大學文物館《清瓷萃珍──清代康雍乾官窯瓷器》，香港，1995年，編號84。另見藝德堂舊藏同紋盌一對，售於香港蘇富比2021年10月12日，拍品25號；霍赫勒珍藏另一對，售於倫敦蘇富比2024年11月6日，拍品9號。