Annamese blue and white dragon altar vessel

An Annamese blue and white altar vessel, 16th/17th century of…
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An Annamese blue and white altar vessel, 16th/17th century of baluster form, painted around the widest part with a dragon pursuing a flaming pearl among flames and cloud scrolls, and a band of upright lappets around the base divided by an unglazed horizontal brown band repeated around the stepped foot, the neck incurved to the narrow mouth unglazed and painted with five Chinese characters 30.5 cm. Other Notes: See the pair to this altar vessel from the collection of Mr and Mrs Barry Hitchcock, in Roxanna brown, the Ceramics of south-East Asia, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1988, plate XIb

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