49. IMPORTANTE ET RARE JARDINIÈRE EN PORCELAINE MONOCHROME BLANCHE Époque Kangxi (1662-1722) A RARE MASSIVE WHITE-GLAZED 'DRAGON' FISH BOWL Kangxi period Sturdily potted with steeply rounded sides tapering towards the unglazed foot, sloping at the gently incurved shoulders to a wide mouth with rounded lip, boldly carved around the exterior with a pair of ferocious five-clawed dragons in pursuit of a flaming pearl, amidst flames and cruciform clouds, above rolling and cresting waves and craggy rockwork around the base, covered overall with a bluish-white glaze, the recessed base unglazed, wood stand. 72cm (28 1/4in) diam. (2). 清康熙 白釉雙龍戲珠紋魚缸 Provenance: Hoffmann collection, Berlin, acquired in the 1920s from China Bohlken, Berlin (by repute) Nagel, Stuttgart, 30 October 2009, lot 214 Published and Exhibited: Daniel Suebsman and Daniela Antonin, Kangxi - Porcelain Treasures of the Kangxi Period, Düsseldorf, 2016, pp.84-85 The Dancing Dragon! Kangxi / China Contemporary, Hetjens Museum, Düsseldorf, 19 July 2015 - 17 January 2016, no.30 來源： 柏林Hoffmann珍藏，於1920年代得自柏林古董商China Bohlken（傳） 納高拍賣行，斯圖加特，2009年10月30日，編號214 出版及展覽: Daniel Suebsman及Daniela Antonin合著，《Kangxi - Porcelain Treasures of the Kangxi Period》，杜塞道夫，2016年，頁84-85 《The Dancing Dragon/China Contemporary》，黑提恩斯博物館，杜塞道夫，2015年7月19日至2016年1月17日，編號30 The design on this large fishbowl is boldly incised, and also appears on vessels of the same shape decorated in copper-red and underglaze-blue, see, for example a fish bowl in the collection of the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum. Blue and White Porcelain with Underglaze Red (III), Hong Kong, 2000, pl.190. Another example similarly modelled with deep rounded sides rising to a lipped rim, is published in Anthony du Boulay, Christie's Pictorial History of Chinese Ceramics, Oxford, 1984, p.208, fig.2. It is also interesting to compare the present example with a large celadon-glazed fish bowl decorated with a moulded dragon design, in the Palace Museum collection, Beijing, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum: Monochrome Porcelain, Hong Kong, 1999, p.149, no.135. See also a large lavender-glazed example, sold Sotheby's Hong Kong, 26 November 1980, lot 346.