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A FINE AND VERY RARE CARVED COPPER-RED-DECORATED ‘DRAGON’ MEIPING

Estimate value
HKD 65 000 000 – 80 000 000
Auction dateClassic
30.05.2024 10:30UTC +08:00
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ID 1196256
Lot 2705 | A FINE AND VERY RARE CARVED COPPER-RED-DECORATED ‘DRAGON’ MEIPING
A FINE AND VERY RARE CARVED COPPER-RED-DECORATED ‘DRAGON’ MEIPING

YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735)

14 in. (35.5 cm.) high, box





Provenance

Collection of Mary J. Morgan (1823–1885), New York

Sold at The American Art Association, New York, The Art Collection formed by the late Mrs. Mary J. Morgan, 9 March 1886, lot 538 (fig. 1)

Sold at Christie’s New York, 28 March 1996, lot 385



Literature

Ye Peilan and J. Thompson, Imperial Perfection: The Palace Porcelain of Three Chinese Emperors, Kangxi- Yongzheng- Qianlong, A Selection from The Wang Xing Lou Collection, Hong Kong, 2004, pp. 76-77, no. 24

The Oriental Ceramic Society, Collectors, Curators, Connoisseurs: A Century of the Oriental Ceramic Society 1921-2021, London, 2021, pp. 252-253, no. 96



Exhibited

New York, The American Art Galleries, The Art Collection formed by the late Mrs. Mary J. Morgan, 12 February- 3 March 1886

On loan to the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 2003-2020

London, Brunei Gallery, SOAS University of London, Collectors, Curators, Connoisseurs: A Century of the Oriental Ceramic Society 1921-2021, 15 October-11 December 2021



Further details

A nearly identical example with a Yongzheng mark has appeared at auction, formerly in the collection of Stephen Junkunc III (d. 1978), was sold at Christie’s New York, 21 September 1995, lot 225 (fig. 2). Another related meiping bearing a Yongzheng mark, whose shape closely follows the Ming dynasty prototypes and is more similar to the one preserved in Taipei National Palace Museum, formerly in the collection of Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge and The British Rail Pension Fund, was sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 29 April 2001, lot 602.
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