5005 | A RARE CARVED CELADON‘DRAGON’ BOTTLE VASE, LAIFUZUN

A RARE CARVED CELADON‘DRAGON’ BOTTLE VASE, LAIFUZUN

Author: --

Size: H26cm

Signed and dated: --

Estimate:

Final Price: RMB 2,200,000

Literature
• Bluett & Sons, The Liddell Collection of Old Chinese Porcelain, London, n.d. (1929), cat. no. 42
• Anthony du Boulay, ’The Mind of a Collector’, Transactions of the Oriental Ceramic Society, vol. 62, 1997-8, p. 54, fig. 4
• Anthony du Boulay, Christie’s Pictorial History of Chinese Ceramics, London, 1984, p. 217, fig. 10
• Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, London, 1994-2010, vol. 4, no. 1817

Provenance
• Collection of Captain Charles Oswald Liddell (who lived in China 1877-1913)
• Bluett & Sons, London
• Collection of Robert C. Bruce (no. 38)
• Sotheby’s London, 12th May 1953, lot 102
• Collection of Norman Railing (no. 72)
• Christie’s London, 14th June 1982, lot 111
• Collection of Anthony du Boulay
• Bonham’s London, 10th November 2003, lot 64
• The Meiyintang Collection, Switzerland
• Hong Kong Sotheby’s, 7 April 2011, lot 19
• The Ten-Views Lingbi Rock Retreat Collection, no.SO460

Exhibited
• The Liddell Collection of Old Chinese Porcelain, Bluett & Sons, London, n.d. (1929), cat. no. 42