Chinese Dragon Vase

A substantial Chinese vase. Wucai decoration in Red, Green, Blue with over glaze enamel designs. Thought to date to  the 19th century, it features a repeating design of coloured Dragons on a White ground.

In a baluster form and standing approximately 15 inches high, this vase is in superb condition. The art work is undamaged as is the rest of the vase.

No cracks. No chips. No restorations!

There is Blue a six character back stamp mark in a Blue  double square box. The character stamp suggests this as an apocryphal Jaijing reign piece, however, certainly being prior to the republic era.

Note of research.

Wucai “Five colours”,(Wuts’ai) is a style of decorating white Chinese porcelain in a limited range of colours. It normally uses underglaze cobalt blue for the design outline and some parts of the images, and overglaze enamels in red, green, and yellow for the rest of the designs. Parts of the design, and some outlines of the rest, are painted in underglaze blue, and the piece is then glazed and fired. The rest of the design is then added in the overglaze enamels of different colours and the piece fired again at a lower temperature of about 850°C to 900°C.[1]