A London private collection of jade carvings and Chinese works of art, lots 1-104
Lot 19
A CHINESE EXPORT SILVER 'DRAGON' TAZZA Early 20th Century, marked TC, TUCK CHANG
15 – 16 May 2023, 10:00 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £1,275 inc. premium
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Rachel Hyman
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Lazarus Halstead
Head of Chinese and Asian Art, London
A CHINESE EXPORT SILVER 'DRAGON' TAZZA
Early 20th Century, marked TC, TUCK CHANG
The circular raised bowl engraved with a five-clawed dragon among clouds against a stipple ground, with a repousse border of two pairs of confronting dragons, supported on a stem formed as an ao fish rising from a knopped spreading foot, with borders of dragons, bamboo and acanthus.
17cm (6 3/4in) high, 20cm (8in) diam.
The circular raised bowl engraved with a five-clawed dragon among clouds against a stipple ground, with a repousse border of two pairs of confronting dragons, supported on a stem formed as an ao fish rising from a knopped spreading foot, with borders of dragons, bamboo and acanthus.
17cm (6 3/4in) high, 20cm (8in) diam.
Footnotes
Provenance: a London private collection amassed between the 1970s and 1990s and thence by descent.