一只大型中国风格的“大龙”大亚寨式镀金鱼缸（水族箱） - 瓷 - 中国 - 清朝，19世纪晚期，光绪年间（1875–1908）

A unique Chinese Dayazhai style gilt 'Dragons' fish bowl. China, Qing dynasty (大清), 19th century, Guangxu (1875-1908, 光緒) period. Very rare, particularly in such dimensions!

A remarkable and fine Dayazhai style fish bowl adorned in bright enamels, the outer parts with two four-claw dragons flying amidst peonies against a yellow ground. Details (like dragon's scales) highlighted with gilding. All under a wide band of Ruyi head-shaped panels with flower scrolls, follow by a key-fret band. Spear-heads under the top-rim. Band of flowers on turquoise cracked-ice ground above the foot-rim. Mouth with four iron red flower scrolls. Interior with five iron-red fish and aquatic plants. Edge of the top-rim gilt.

Dimensions: height - 24 cm; diameter: - 25,5 cm. Weight - 3121 g.

Provenance: German private collection, Stuttgart area.

Day-light pictures included.

Conditions report: hairline to the wall only. No other damages, no chips, no restorations. Minimal wear to the painted decoration and gilding. Minor firing faults possible. Check pictures for details.

The dragon is perhaps the most important motif in the Chinese ceramic decorative repertory being symbolic of Imperial power. During the Song period the dragon motif was employed as an archaistic chilong type with three large claws set in relative isolation giving the sinuous snake-like body maximum impact. This was perpetuated during the Yuan dynasty, although the dragon had developed into the more 'mature' type, with characteristic blunt nose, strained eyes beneath fringed lashes, pronounced antler-like horns and thick tresses sweeping from beneath their necks into high coiffures. During the early Ming period, the dragon typically remained unobscured by surrounding decoration, whether clouds, flames, or foliage, retaining its whole body as a dominant single visual entity.

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