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The Irresistible Rise of an Imperial Dragon

Result EUR4,937,200
Published on , by La Gazette Drouot
Auction on 07 March 2020 - 09:30 (CET) - 11, rue Fulton - 18000 Bourges

This blue-enamelled white porcelain flask is as imposing for its size – 50.3 cm – as for its imperial origin, which quickly pushed up the bidding.

China, Qianlong period (1736-1795), bianhu flask in white porcelain with blue enamel... The Irresistible Rise of an Imperial Dragon

China, Qianlong period (1736-1795), bianhu flask in white porcelain with blue enamel under the glaze, Qianlong’s mark in six zhuanshu characters in blue under the glaze, height 50.3 cm.
Result: €4,937,200.

A Chinese phone bidder paid €4,937,200 for this bianhu ( moon vase ) flask estimated at one to two million euros. That brilliant result places it just…
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Saturday 07 March 2020 - 09:30 (CET)
11, rue Fulton - 18000 Bourges
Olivier Clair
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