The Rise and Rlse or Chinese Blue and White Porcelain

摘要

HINESE blue and white porcelain stole the show at the 2003 Doyle New York auction. Lot 74, a Yuan Dynasty cloud and dragon design 'pilgrim' flask, 37.7 cm-tall, mended at the mouth and cracked on both sides, sold for an incredible US $5.8315 million. This is not so surprising from a collector's point of view, bearing in mind the brevity of the Yuan Dynasty (1271 -1368) and there being just seven such vases extant, six of them in museum collections.