Pear Chinese porcelain vase, substantial rotund body with rounded shoulders converging into a short neck, with a slightly concave foot base. All delicately in a cobalt blue hand painting in a clean white under glazed base color. The shoulder decorated in lotus blooms interspersed with foliage, vines bounded with auspicious pattern, and upturning lappets on the neck. The belly depicted in a frame the great snarling imperial five-claws dragon careening through cumulus clouds flame above thrashing Li-Shui waves to chase a flaming pearls. Dragon is the symbol of the Emperor, the Son of Heaven, eternity, Yang and Yin, male vigor and fecundity and the Li-Shui wave pattern which is known to be the abode of dragons. The lower belly decorated with scrolling tendril and foliage and ruyi on the foot base.

Measurements: 12-1/8" H x 6-1/4" Diam.

PROVENANCE:

From the private collections of Green family, of New York, by inheritance. Estate from ST LAWRENCE ANTIQUES, Riverside DR, Ogdensburg, New York. The Green's family collections offered at this Auctions can be found on Lot-278 Through Lot-302.

Over all in EXCELLENT Condition.
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