AN EXCEPTIONAL AND EXTREMELY RARE CELADON APPLIQUE-DECORATED 'DRAGON' VASE YUAN DYNASTY exquisitely applied overall with a rich green glaze with attractive bluish-green tinge, superbly potted with an ovoid body sweeping up to a tall cylindrical neck and a flattened everted mouthrim, applied with a pair of handles each in the form of a sinuous and boldly articulated makara, or fish-dragon, all supported on a pronounced splayed foot, the body divided into two registers, the main body boldly applied with a pair of ferocious four-clawed dragons depicted writhing amidst ruyi-shaped clouds above tempestuous waves in pursuit of a 'flaming pearl', below a band of incised lotus petal lappets, divided by a raised fillet studded with eight florets, the neck decorated with two registers separated by a raised fillet, the upper register with stylised 'flaming pearls', the lower register with stylised swirling scrollwork, the stepped base glazed and encircled by an unglazed footring burnt orange-brown in the firing 26.4 cm., 10 3/8 in.
AN EXCEPTIONAL AND EXTREMELY RARE CELADON APPLIQUE-DECORATED 'DRAGON' VASE YUAN DYNASTY exquisitely applied overall with a rich green glaze with attractive bluish-green tinge, superbly potted with an ovoid body sweeping up to a tall cylindrical neck and a flattened everted mouthrim, applied with a pair of handles each in the form of a sinuous and boldly articulated makara, or fish-dragon, all supported on a pronounced splayed foot, the body divided into two registers, the main body boldly applied with a pair of ferocious four-clawed dragons depicted writhing amidst ruyi-shaped clouds above tempestuous waves in pursuit of a 'flaming pearl', below a band of incised lotus petal lappets, divided by a raised fillet studded with eight florets, the neck decorated with two registers separated by a raised fillet, the upper register with stylised 'flaming pearls', the lower register with stylised swirling scrollwork, the stepped base glazed and encircled by an unglazed footring burnt orange-brown in the firing 26.4 cm., 10 3/8 in.
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