A RARE INCISED BLUE AND WHITE 'DRAGON' VASE, MEIPING
Yongzheng four-character mark and of the period
Elegantly potted with a slightly splayed foot rising to a rounded shoulder and a narrow mouth, delicately incised and highlighted in blue with a single scaly dragon pursuing a flaming pearl around the shoulder. 17.5cm (6 7/8in) high.
Footnotes:
Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價

清雍正 白釉暗刻游龍戲珠紋梅瓶
青花「雍正年製」楷書款

Provenance: Professor E.T. Hall, no. 226
Christie's London, 7 June 2004, lot 40
An important European private Collection

來源: E.T. Hall教授舊藏，編號226
倫敦佳士得，2004年6月7日，拍品編號40
重要歐洲私人收藏

Professor Edward Thomas Hall C.B.E (1924-2001) was a scientist and inventor. Educated at Eton and New College, Oxford, he became a leading expert in the development of archaeometry, radio-carbon dating and research in thermoluminescence techniques. A trustee of the National Gallery and the British Museum, he sat on the Advisory Council of the Science Museum. He was also a hot-air balloon pilot and created his own balloon. He was a regular client at Bluett's and purchased Qing Imperial monochromes. See R.Davids and D.Jellinek, Provenance, Oxford, 2011, pp.211-212.

Yongzheng mark and period meiping vases decorated with one incised dragon, such as the present lot, are extremely rare and there are few published examples. See a copper-red-decorated meiping vase with two dragons, Yongzheng six-character mark and of the period, which was sold at Christie's London, 3 November 2020, lot 162.

Minor firing imperfections; scratches to the surface.