A FINE CHINESE QING DYNASTY BLUE AND WHITE PORCELAIN DRAGON ...

Estimate

£300 - £500

A FINE CHINESE QING DYNASTY BLUE AND WHITE PORCELAIN DRAGON TAZZA Qianlong mark and probably of the period, decorated around the sides with a band of interlocking foliate scrolls, the stem with a five-clawed dragon in pursuit of the flaming pearl above waves breaking on jagged rockwork, further rendered with a carp, the interior of the stem inscribed with a horizontal six-character seal mark. 22.5 cm x 17.75 cm. Note: Similar examples include one illustrated in Beauty of Ceramics, vol. 3: Blue and White Porcelain, Taipei, 1993, pl. 153, and another sold Sotheby's New York rooms, 22nd March 1999, lot 395. For earlier prototypes, see a Kangxi reign-marked tazza in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, included in the Illustrated Catalogue of Ch'ing Dynasty Porcelain in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, vol. 1, 1980, pl. 15, and a Yongzheng example sold at Sotheby's, 16th May 1989, lot 249.