Beschreibung:

A RARE YELLOW-GLAZED INCISED 'DRAGON' JAR, GUANKangxi
The vessel heavily potted with an ovoid body surmounted by a short neck with lipped rim, the exterior incised with a pair of sinuous dragons writhing amidst clouds and flames between a band of lappets encircling the base and a collar of ruyi designs enclosing blossoming flowers at the shoulder, the short neck with a dragon and phoenix, covered with a translucent egg-yolk-yellow glaze.
25cm (9 7/8in) high.Footnotes清康熙 黃釉暗刻龍紋罐
Provenance: Georges Louis Parisot (1904-1995)
The Mr. and Mrs. Paul Tar collection, former ambassador of Hungary to the US 1991-1994
Bonhams London, 13 May 2021, lot 39
來源：Georges Louis Parisot（1904-1995）
Paul Tar伉儷舊藏，曾於1991至1994年任前匈牙利駐美國大使
邦瀚斯倫敦，2021年5月13日，拍品編號39
George Louis Parisot (1904-1995) was High Commissioner of France in Germany, President of the Tonkin coal mines in the 1950s.
George Louis Parisot（1904-1995）曾任法國駐德國高級專員，二十世紀五十年代曾任Tonkin煤礦總裁。
Finely potted and covered with an attractive yellow glaze, the present jar appears to have been inspired by Ming porcelain. Compare with a white-glazed jar decorated with incised designs of a writhing dragon chasing a flaming pearl and prancing amidst clouds, above a band of lappets, Jiajing, in the British Museum, London, illustrated by J.Harrison-Hall, Ming Ceramics in the British Museum, London, 2001, pp.216-217, no.9:2. See also the incised designs of a pair of dragons between a band of lappet at the base and a ruyi collar enclosing blossoming lotus on a white-glazed meiping jar, Jiajing mark and of the period, also in the British Museum, illustrated in Ibid., p.261, no.9:1.
Compare the present jar with a dragon writhing amidst clouds incised on a yellow-glazed dish, Kangxi mark and of the period, in the Zhejiang Provincial Museum, Hangzhou, illustrated in Treasures of Imperial Porcelain, Beijing, 2011, no.002. See also an undecorated yellow-glazed jar and cover, Kangxi, in the British Museum, London, illustrated by R.Scott, Illustrated Catalogue of Ming and Ch'ing Monochrome in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, London, 1989, p.34, no.A527.